Re: remoteproc DMA API abuse status

[Mathieu Poirier]

Good day Christoph,

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:43:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi remoteproc maintainers,
> 
> did you make any progress to get remoteproc out of creating fake
> devices that fake their dma ops status and the abuse of
> dma_declare_coherent_memory in removeproc_virtio?  I remember we had
> a discussion on this a long time ago, and there was an unfinished
> patchset to change the memory pool handling.  What happened to all that?

I believe the conversation and patchset you are referring to are pre-dating my
time in this subsystem.  To make sure I am looking at the right thing, can you
(or anyone else) point me to that discussion and related patches?  

Thanks,
Mathieu