Re: [PATCH v3 05/10] lib: add dmabuf token infrastructure

From: Christoph Hellwig

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 04:27:05 EST


Naming and placement:

This is about dma-buf based I/O. So I'd expect it to be named dma-buf-io
and no io-dmabuf, and live in drivers/dma-buf and not the unrelated lib/.
But I'd like to hear from the dma-buf maintainers about that.

Config option: as this unconditionally when DMA_SHARED_BUFFER is enabled,
why does it need a separate config option?

Interface: io_dmabuf_token_create / ->create_dmabuf_token filling
in a structure allocated by the caller feels odd. My gut feeling
would be to move most of io_dmabuf_token_create into a helper called
by ->create_dmabuf_token so that the token is allocated in the
driver data structure and returned from create_dmabuf_token.