Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] media: uvcvideo: Use dma_alloc_noncontiguos API

From: . Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 03:36:59 EST


On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:14:08PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > So I think we do want these branches for coherent vs non-coherent as they
> > have very different semantics and I do not think that hiding them under
> > the same API helps people to understand those vastly different semantics.
> >
> > OTOH we should look into a fallback for DMA API instances that do not
> > support the discontigous allocations.
> >
> > I think between your comments and those from Ricardo I have a good idea
> > for a somewhat updated API. I'll try to post something in the next days.
>
> Did you have time to look into this?
>
> No hurry, I just want to make sure that I didn't miss anything ;)

Haven't managed to get to it, sorry.

>
> Best regards!
>
>
>
> --
> Ricardo Ribalda
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