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SubjectRe: [PATCH char-misc-next 10/19] lib: convert iova.c into a library
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On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 11:41 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 28/07/15 11:03, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:57:32PM -0700, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
> > > From: Harish Chegondi <harish.chegondi@intel.com>
> > >
> > > This patch converts iova.c into a library, moving it from
> > > drivers/iommu/ to lib/, and exports its virtual address
> > > allocation and
> > > management functions so that other modules can reuse them.
> > >
> > > Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
> > > Reviewed-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com
> > > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Harish Chegondi <harish.chegondi@intel.com>
> >
> > Where is this going to be used outside of the IOMMU world?
> >
>
> ...and how does it relate to the patches from Sakari (+CC) doing much
> the same thing[1]?

I merged Sakari's patches into the intel-iommu git tree today, FWIW.

If there's really a need to move it from drivers/iommu/ to lib/ then we
could feasibly do that too.

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