On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:04:08AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hmmm? Don't we have drivers which map dma buffers on device init and
> release them on exit? For dynamic usages, its usefulness is limited
> especially given that dynamic tracking of buffers usually would
> involve tracking of other information too in addition to dma buffer
> pointer themselves. If alloc on init and free on exit is a very rare
> usage pattern, I have no objection against not adding devm interface
> for dma mappings.
Yes, but those drivers usually get DMA buffers at init time with the
dma_alloc_* interfaces. The dma_map_* interfaces discussed here belong
to the streaming DMA-API, so they are usually used for only one DMA
transaction before dma_unmap_* is called on them.
A devm interface for the dma_alloc_* family of functions would
actually make sense, but not for the dma_map_* functions.
Joerg
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