Re: [PATCH 06/11] ttm/driver: Expand ttm_backend_func to includetwo overrides for TTM page pool.

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 11/01/2011 03:37 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:40:54AM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>    
> > Konrad,
> >
> > I was hoping that we could get rid of the dma_address shuffling into
> > core TTM,
> > like I mentioned in the review. From what I can tell it's now only
> > used in the backend and
> > core ttm doesn't care about it.
> >
> > Is there a particular reason we're still passing it around?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > /Thomas
> >
> >      
> I am working on patchset on top of this that will move dma handling
> back to driver and mostly out of ttm (the page alloc helper will
> still do dma stuff on behalf of driver) So if my patchset is acceptable
> the dma situation is transionary.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome
>    
Cool.

Thanks, Jerome.

/Thomas

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