Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for cache flushing

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for cache flushing
Date	2016-05-26 14:10 +0200
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On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:59:22AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> I _really_ hate seeing architecture internal functions being abused in
> drivers - architecture internal functions are there to implement the
> official kernel APIs and are not for drivers to poke about with.

Exactly - if drivers like drm and ion want to do something out side the
current DMA API we need to add a proper API, not hack around the lack of
one.

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[RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for cache flushing Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-05-25 22:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for  cache flushing Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com> - 2016-05-26 12:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for  cache flushing Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-05-26 13:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for  cache flushing Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-05-26 14:10 +0200

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