Re: [PATCH] lib/scatterlist: Provide a DMA page iterator

[Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:06, hch@lst.de <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 07:28:13AM +0000, Koenig, Christian wrote:
> > To summarize once more: We have an array of struct pages and want to
> > coherently map that to a device.
>
> And the answer to that is very simple: you can't.  What is so hard
> to understand about?  If you want to map arbitrary memory it simply
> can't be done in a coherent way on about half of our platforms.
>
> > If that is not possible because of whatever reason we want to get an
> > error code or even not load the driver from the beginning.
>
> That is a bullshit attitude.  Just like everyone else makes their
> drivers work you should not be lazy.

Can you not talk to people like that? Even if you think that is an OK
way to treat anyone - which it isn't, certainly not on dri-devel@ with
the fd.o Code of Conduct, and not according to the kernel's either - I
have absolutely no idea how you can look at the work the AMD people
have put in over many years and conclude that they're 'lazy'.

If this makes you so angry, step back from the keyboard for a few
minutes, and if you still can't participate in reasonable discussion
like an adult, maybe step out of the thread entirely.