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Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2020 08:21:50 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] WIP: add a dma_alloc_contiguous API
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:56:04PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > Yes.  And make sure the API isn't implemented when VIVT caches are
> > used, but that isn't really different from the current interface.
> 
> Okay, thanks. Let's see if we can make necessary changes to the videobuf2.
> 
> +Sergey Senozhatsky for awareness too.

I can defer the changes a bit to see if you'd really much prefer
the former interface.  I think for now the most important thing is
that it works properly for the potential users, and the prime one is
videobuf2 for now.  drm also seems like a big potential users, but I
had a really hard time getting the developers to engage in API
development.