Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] dma-mapping: move the remaining DMA API calls out of line | From | Alexey Kardashevskiy <> | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 2020 10:43:10 +1000 |
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On 03/06/2020 14:13, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 09/05/2020 18:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 02:18:37PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 17/04/2020 17:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:21:37PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>>>> And the fact they were exported leaves possibility that there is a >>>>> driver somewhere relying on these symbols or distro kernel won't build >>>>> because the symbol disappeared from exports (I do not know what KABI >>>>> guarantees or if mainline kernel cares). >>>> >>>> We absolutely do not care. In fact for abuses of APIs that drivers >>>> should not use we almost care to make them private and break people >>>> abusing them. >>> >>> ok :) >>> >>>>> I do not care in particular but >>>>> some might, a line separated with empty lines in the commit log would do. >>>> >>>> I'll add a blurb for the next version. >>> >>> >>> Has it gone anywhere? Thanks, >> >> I've been hoping for the sg_buf helpers to land first, as they need >> backporting and would conflict. Do you urgently need the series? > > Any progress with sg_buf helpers stuff? Thanks,
Any luck there? I'd really like to cross this off my todo list :) Thanks,
-- Alexey
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