Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] virtio DMA API, yet again

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jan 31 2016 - 14:06:25 EST


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:01:00AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Also, wasn't Christoph looking at making per-device DMA ops more
> generic instead of an 'archdata' thing on basically every platform? Or
> did I just imagine that part?

What I've done for 4.5 is to switch all architectures to use DMA ops.
This should make it fairly easy to have a generic dma ops pointer in the
devie structure, but I have no need for that yet, and thus no short term
plans to do that work myself.