Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v2 04/22] iommu: Allow iova to be used without requiring IOMMU_SUPPORT

From: Sudeep Dutt
Date: Mon Oct 05 2015 - 13:42:12 EST


On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 03:50 -0700, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 18:09 -0700, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
> > From: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > iova is a library which can be built without IOMMU_SUPPORT
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The first three of these patches are in 4.3-rc4 already. Apologies for
> the delay in pushing them out.
>
> This one looks sane enough too, but perhaps in that case we should move
> the code *out* of drivers/iommu/ and into lib/iova/ ?
>

Yes, moving the code into lib/iova is the correct long term solution. I
have sent Greg a patch which reverts this commit since it is no longer
required and will create a merge conflict for him unnecessarily as well
with 4.3-rc4.

Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

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