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From:   Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:08:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] media: uvcvideo: Use dma_alloc_noncontiguos API
To:     ". Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 9:36 AM . Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:14:08PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > > So I think we do want these branches for coherent vs non-coherent as they
> > > have very different semantics and I do not think that hiding them under
> > > the same API helps people to understand those vastly different semantics.
> > >
> > > OTOH we should look into a fallback for DMA API instances that do not
> > > support the discontigous allocations.
> > >
> > > I think between your comments and those from Ricardo I have a good idea
> > > for a somewhat updated API.  I'll try to post something in the next days.
> >
> > Did you have time to look into this?
> >
> > No hurry, I just want to make sure that I didn't miss anything ;)
>
> Haven't managed to get to it, sorry.

No worries!, is there something we can do to help you with this?

>
> >
> > Best regards!
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ricardo Ribalda
> ---end quoted text---


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Ricardo Ribalda