Re: [PATCH 0/9][RFC] stackable dma_ops for x86

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:21:12 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this patch series implements stackable dma_ops on x86. This is useful
> to be able to fall back to a different dma_ops implementation if one
> can not handle a particular device (as necessary for example with
> paravirtualized device passthrough or if a hardware IOMMU only
> handles a subset of available devices).

isn't the right answer here to have a per device DMA ops instead ?


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