Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935098AbbGHN2z (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2015 09:28:55 -0400 Received: from mx0a-00176a03.pphosted.com ([67.231.149.52]:55121 "EHLO mx0a-00176a03.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932854AbbGHN2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2015 09:28:53 -0400 Message-ID: <559D257B.6020808@ge.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:28:27 +0100 From: Martyn Welch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alessio Igor Bogani , Dmitry Kalinkin CC: , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Igor Alekseev , LKML , Manohar Vanga Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 08/16] staging: vme_user: provide DMA functionality References: <1432814833-5320-1-git-send-email-dmitry.kalinkin@gmail.com> <1432814833-5320-9-git-send-email-dmitry.kalinkin@gmail.com> <20150613002807.GA17459@kroah.com> <559A8117.4060701@ge.com> <559A9556.4040303@ge.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [3.159.19.193] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2015-07-08_05:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1506180000 definitions=main-1507080213 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 869 Lines: 18 On 07/07/15 08:08, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: > I would be glad to try it if the maintainer is willing to receive this > type of changes. Such requirements have come up in the past. I'd welcome such support being contributed to the kernel. My view has been that such an API could be built on top of the existing API. Does that seem workable to you? -- Martyn Welch (Lead Software Engineer) | Registered in England and Wales GE Intelligent Platforms | (3828642) at 100 Barbirolli Square T +44(0)1327322748 | Manchester, M2 3AB E martyn.welch@ge.com | VAT:GB 927559189 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/