Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:28:53 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] uio: introduce UIO_MEM_DMA_COHERENT type |
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:17:31AM -0800, Chris Leech wrote: > Add a UIO memtype specifically for sharing dma_alloc_coherent > memory with userspace, backed by dma_mmap_coherent. > > This is mainly for the bnx2/bnx2x/bnx2i "cnic" interface, although there > are a few other uio drivers which map dma_alloc_coherent memory and > could be converted to use dma_mmap_coherent as well.
What other drivers could use this? Patches doing the conversion would be welcome, otherwise, again, I am very loath to take this one-off-change for just a single driver that shouldn't be doing this in the first place :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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