Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 16:38:26 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/67] powerpc: rename dma_direct_ to dma_nommu_
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 09:49:30AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 08:45:30PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> > 
> > > We want to use the dma_direct_ namespace for a generic implementation,
> > > so rename powerpc to the second best choice: dma_nommu_.
> > 
> > I'm not a fan of "nommu". Some of the users of direct ops *are* using an
> > IOMMU, they're just setting up a 1:1 mapping once at init time, rather
> > than mapping dynamically.
> > 
> > Though I don't have a good idea for a better name, maybe "1to1",
> > "linear", "premapped" ?
> 
> It seems like a nice counter part to the dma_iommu_ops used just about
> anywhere else in ppc.
> 
> But I'll happily take any maintainer bike shed decision for the next
> series.  Remember that in a merge window or two it will hopefully
> go away in favor of the new generic dma_direct ops.

Michael, please suggest what name you want for the next iteration,
I don't want to hold up the series on a naming bikeshed.