On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 03:51:54PM +0000, Tang, Feng wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Thanks for the review. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: One Thousand Gnomes [mailto:gno...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] > > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 10:25 PM > > To: Tang, Feng > > Cc: Greg KH; John Stultz; Colin Cross; Heesub Shin; Mitchel Humpherys; > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: andriod: ion: Add ion_phys_get_by_id > > function > > > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 15:11:51 +0800 > > Feng Tang <feng.t...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > There is user case that user only knows the ion_handle idand > > > needs to get the physical addr and len. So add this wrapper to > > > meet this requirement. > > > > What is the in-tree upstream user of this new function ? I don't see one > > in your patches ? > > That's true. We are working on enabling a new platform which heavily > uses ION and some driver needs to use this API, so I guess there is some > other plaforms may have the similar requirements. If you think this patch > should be merged after there is an in-tree user, I'm OK with it :) > > I assume that driver's author will start to push his drivers in batch soon.
We need to see those patches first, we can't add apis for no in-tree user, otherwise they will just get ripped out. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
