From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752948Ab1KUFbP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:31:15 -0500 Received: from hqemgate03.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.140]:14212 "EHLO hqemgate03.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161Ab1KUFbN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:31:13 -0500 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp07.nvidia.com on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:31:05 -0800 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:31:01 +0200 From: Hiroshi Doyu To: Joerg Roedel CC: KyongHo Cho , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" , "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: iommu: tegra: Add initial Tegra IOMMU driver Message-ID: <20111121073101.6b369421.hdoyu@nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: <20111118104354.GA19737@8bytes.org> References: <1321527667-12923-1-git-send-email-hdoyu@nvidia.com> <20111118104354.GA19737@8bytes.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-NVConfidentiality: public MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Joerg, On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:43:54 +0100 Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 07:19:53PM +0900, KyongHo Cho wrote: > > > I found that those patches are not IOMMU API implementations. > > I wonder why they need to be located in drivers/iommu? > > The current effort goes into creating a generic framework for IOMMUs. > These patches create their own framework which is totally the wrong > direction, they even implement their own version of an IOMMU-API. > > I object against merging them until they are converted to the generic > IOMMU-API. Ok, I'll in v2 of this patchset. That was a plan, mentioned in the cover letter of this patchset.