Re: [PATCH 2/5] iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Fri Jan 20 2012 - 11:03:11 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Well, u64 is a catch-all datatype which should suit all drivers. Is this
> > a problem at ARM?
>
> No, it's not a problem for ARM, at least to my knowledge. It just struck me as
> weird, as we have specific data types for other kinds of addresses (such as
> dma_addr_t).

Okay, I looked at the definition and dma_addr_t seems like a good fit.
To be consistent we should change the iova type of the map/unmap
functions to dma_addr_t too.

Regards,

Joerg

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