[PATCH hyperv-next 5/6] arch, drivers: Add device struct bitfield to not bounce-buffer

Roman Kisel romank at linux.microsoft.com
Thu Apr 10 08:16:00 PDT 2025



On 4/10/2025 12:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:44:03AM -0700, Roman Kisel wrote:
>> Do you feel this is shoehorned in `struct device`? I couldn't find an
>> appropriate private (== opaque pointer) part in the structure to store
>> that bit (`struct device_private` wouldn't fit the bill) and looked like
>> adding it to the struct itself would do no harm. However, my read of the
>> room is that folks see that as dubious :)
> 
> We'll need per-device information.  But it is much higher level than a
> need bounce buffer flag.
> 

I see, thanks for the explanation!

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Thank you,
Roman




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