| Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2014 13:05:30 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 01/10] iommu: Add IOMMU device registry |
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:49:41PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > Add an IOMMU device registry for drivers to register with and implement > a method for users of the IOMMU API to attach to an IOMMU device. This > allows to support deferred probing and gives the IOMMU API a convenient > hook to perform early initialization of a device if necessary.
Can you elaborate on why exactly you need this? The IOMMU-API is designed to hide any details from the user about the available IOMMUs in the system and which IOMMU handles which device. This looks like it is going in a completly different direction from that.
Joerg
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