Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 May 2016 05:06:35 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] staging: ion: Move away from the DMA APIs for cache flushing |
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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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