Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Sat, 18 Sep 2021 11:42:01 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] misc: genwqe: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API |
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 7:20 AM Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > In [1], Christoph Hellwig has proposed to remove the wrappers in > include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h. > > Some reasons why this API should be removed have been given by Julia > Lawall in [2]. > > Finally, Arnd Bergmann reminded that the documentation was updated 11 years > ago to only describe the modern linux/dma-mapping.h interfaces and mark the > old bus-specific ones as no longer recommended, see commit 216bf58f4092 > ("Documentation: convert PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to use the generic DMA API"). ... > > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
How much is left now overall? Are you getting close enough that the remaining patches to remove the header can be done as a short series and merged through Andrew's -mm tree?
Arnd
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