Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT

From	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT
Date	2015-10-05 19:50 +0200
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On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 03:50 -0700, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 18:09 -0700, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
> > From: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
> > 
> > iova is a library which can be built without IOMMU_SUPPORT
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
> 
> The first three of these patches are in 4.3-rc4 already. Apologies for
> the delay in pushing them out.
> 
> This one looks sane enough too, but perhaps in that case we should move
> the code *out* of drivers/iommu/ and into lib/iova/ ?
> 

Yes, moving the code into lib/iova is the correct long term solution. I
have sent Greg a patch which reverts this commit since it is no longer
required and will create a merge conflict for him unnecessarily as well
with 4.3-rc4.

Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

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[PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> - 2015-09-30 02:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com> - 2015-10-05 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> - 2015-10-05 19:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-06 07:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> - 2015-10-06 07:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-06 10:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> - 2015-10-06 10:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-06 10:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> - 2015-10-06 14:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used  without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-06 07:30 +0200

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