Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 9/9] xen/gntdev: Expose gntdev's dma-buf API for in-kernel use | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2018 17:51:38 -0400 |
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On 06/06/2018 08:46 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote: > On 06/05/2018 01:36 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >> On 06/01/2018 07:41 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote: >>> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com> >>> >>> Allow creating grant device context for use by kernel modules which >>> require functionality, provided by gntdev. Export symbols for dma-buf >>> API provided by the module. >> Can you give an example of who'd be using these interfaces? > There is no use-case at the moment I can think of, but hyper dma-buf > [1], [2] > I let Intel folks (CCed) to defend this patch as it was done primarily > for them > and I don't use it in any of my use-cases. So, from this POV it can be > dropped, > at least from this series.
Yes, let's drop this until someone actually needs it.
-boris
>> >> -boris >> > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38207/ > [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/204447/ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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