Re: [PATCH 2/3] dma-buf: add support for kernel cpu access

From: Semwal, Sumit
Date: Tue Mar 06 2012 - 05:33:46 EST


Hi Daniel,
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 23:24, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Perhaps we should check somewhere for required dmabuf ops fxns (like
>> kmap_atomic here), rather than just calling unconditionally what might
>> be a null ptr.  At least put it in the WARN_ON(), but it might be
>> nicer to catch a missing required fxns at export time, rather than
>> waiting for an importer to try and call it.  Less likely that way, for
>> newly added required functions go unnoticed.
>>
>> (same comment applies below for the non-atomic variant.. and possibly
>> some other existing dmabuf ops)
>
> Agreed, I'll rework the patch to do that when rebasing onto Sumit's latest tree.
In addition, you'd not need to check for !dmabuf->ops since the export
should already catch it.

As I sent in the other mail a while back, could you please rebase on
for-next at git://git.linaro.org/people/sumitsemwal/linux-dma-buf.git

Best regards,
~Sumit.
> -Daniel
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