From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Ramirez Luna, Omar" <omar.ramirez@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] staging tidspbridge: iommu migration
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:01:16 +0200
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On Tuesday 03 May 2011, Ramirez Luna, Omar wrote:
> >
> > The code removal in this series looks good, but the move from
> > one proprietary iommu API to another proprietary iommu API
> > seems pointless.
> >
> > It would be much more helpful if you could convert the tidspbridge
> > code to the dma-mapping API, or to the generic iommu API
> > and provide these interfaces from the omap code.
> 
> Yes, I thought removing a bunch of lines from staging might be good.
> I'll check what can be done to use generic iommu or dma-mapping.

Ok, excellent. Have you seen the recent discussions on the
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org mailing lists? We've been
thinking about how it should be done there, and will continue
the discussions in the upcoming Linaro@UDS meeting in Budapest
next week.

	Arnd
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