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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/2] staging: ion: of_ion_device_get
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On 03/22/2016 03:33 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> probably I'm doing this all wrong. I'm playing around with a bunch of accelerators
> and I need to share buffers between them. I have my heaps implemented as a
> platform device and from what I understand I'll need a reference to the
> struct ion_device in each of them.
> I couldn't find a way to get to that via devicetree, though. I'll admit that hacking
> up miscdevice is quite hacky, maybe I should add a foo_get_ion_device() to my
> heap implementing platform device?
> If someone can explain me how to correctly do that with what we currently have,
> even better.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Moritz
>
> Moritz Fischer (2):
> misc: Add of_get_misc get a reference from devicetree
> staging: android: ion: Add of_ion_device_get function
>
> drivers/char/misc.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 10 ++++++++++
> include/linux/miscdevice.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
>

In the past what drivers have done is a foo_ion_client_create which has the reference
to the ion_device created from ion_device_create. Drivers then call the
foo_ion_client_create function.

Can you elaborate more on your sharing and allocation flow? This might suggest
another idea.

Thanks,
Laura

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