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Message-ID: <BANLkTin7vsfjF+86UrGb7ph0B8TpiXiF0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 May 2011 15:48:07 -0500
From:	"Ramirez Luna, Omar" <omar.ramirez@...com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] staging tidspbridge: iommu migration

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2011 17:31:46 Omar Ramirez Luna wrote:
>> Rework and rebase of the previous set of patches for iommu migration[1].
>>
>> Reorganized the patches to avoid several iterations to change the same code.
>>
>> Patches were tested with an OMAP3630 board, with both, basic samples and
>> gst-dsp; these are dependant on patch:
>>         "OMAP: iovmm: fix SW flags passed by user"[2].
>
> The code removal in this series looks good, but the move from
> one proprietary iommu API to another proprietary iommu API
> seems pointless.
>
> It would be much more helpful if you could convert the tidspbridge
> code to the dma-mapping API, or to the generic iommu API
> and provide these interfaces from the omap code.

Yes, I thought removing a bunch of lines from staging might be good.
I'll check what can be done to use generic iommu or dma-mapping.

Thanks,

Omar
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