[RFC v2 1/2] dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism

[Semwal, Sumit]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Semwal, Sumit wrote:
>> >
>> > Do you have a use case for making the interface compile-time disabled?
>> > I had assumed that any code using it would make no sense if it's not
>> > available so you don't actually need this.
>>
>> Ok. Though if we keep the interface compile-time disabled, the users
>> can actually check and fail or fall-back gracefully when the API is
>> not available; If I remove it, anyways the users would need to do the
>> same compile time check whether API is available or not, right?
>
> If you have to do a compile-time check for the config symbol, it's better
> to do it the way you did here than in the caller.
>
> My guess was that no caller would actually require this, because when you
> write a part of a subsystem to interact with the dma-buf infrastructure,
> you would always disable compilation of an extire file that deals with
> everything related to struct dma_buf, not just stub out the calls.

Right; that would be ideal, but we may not be able to ask each user to
do so - especially when the sharing part might be interspersed in
existing buffer handling code. So for now, I would like to keep it as
it-is.
>
>        Arnd
>
BR,
~Sumit.
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