Carlos,

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 7:32 AM Carlos Rafael Giani <crg7475@...> wrote:

This issue came up when I noticed that the ION and DWL allocators in libimxdmabuffer failed. (DWL is an API from the Hantro VPU libraries, and it fails, because internally it itself uses ION.)

This is the relevant code: https://github.com/Freescale/libimxdmabuffer/blob/master/imxdmabuffer/imxdmabuffer_ion_allocator.c#L428

I am now wondering if I can add some workaround to also support older kernels that are subject to such a header mismatch. An ugly workaround would be to manually define the IOCTL, like this:

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 19, 0)
#define CUSTOM_DMA_BUF_IOCTL_PHYS _IOW(DMA_BUF_BASE, 1, struct dma_buf_phys)
#else
#define CUSTOM_DMA_BUF_IOCTL_PHYS DMA_BUF_IOCTL_PHYS
#endif

And then use the CUSTOM_DMA_BUF_IOCTL_PHYS instead of the regular DMA_BUF_IOCTL_PHYS in the code.

This does not work as the libimxdmabuffer is shared (and it should be)
across multiple machines of same SoC family. Considering that, the
best choice is to apply a patch to old Linux kernels to make it to use
the newer API/ABI with this backport.

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