Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] media: uvcvideo: Use dma_alloc_noncontiguos API

From: Ricardo Ribalda
Date: Fri Jan 15 2021 - 08:09:12 EST


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 9:36 AM . Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:14:08PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > > So I think we do want these branches for coherent vs non-coherent as they
> > > have very different semantics and I do not think that hiding them under
> > > the same API helps people to understand those vastly different semantics.
> > >
> > > OTOH we should look into a fallback for DMA API instances that do not
> > > support the discontigous allocations.
> > >
> > > I think between your comments and those from Ricardo I have a good idea
> > > for a somewhat updated API. I'll try to post something in the next days.
> >
> > Did you have time to look into this?
> >
> > No hurry, I just want to make sure that I didn't miss anything ;)
>
> Haven't managed to get to it, sorry.

No worries!, is there something we can do to help you with this?

>
> >
> > Best regards!
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ricardo Ribalda
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