linux-kernel - Re: add a new dma_alloc

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Message-ID: <20210211130625.GA20155@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:06:25 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...gle.com>,
        "open list:IOMMU DRIVERS" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Subject: Re: add a new dma_alloc_noncontiguous API v2

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:08:18AM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> Hi Christoph
> 
> What are your merge plans for the uvc change?
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping.git/commit/3dc47131f8aacc2093f68a9971d24c754e435520
> 
> Are you going to remove the patch on your Merge request and then send
> it for review to Laurent? or merge it through your tree with a S-o-B
> him?

I though I had all the ACKs to queue it up.  Is that not what was
intended?  Queueing up the API without a user is generally a bad idea.