On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:13 PM Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:39:12AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 03:55:28PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > > > The older device property API is going to be removed. > > > Replacing the device_add_properties() call with software > > > node API equivalent device_create_managed_software_node(). > > > > > > Fixes: 434b73e61cc6 ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use device properties for pasid-num-bits") > > > > Is this really fixing anything ? I am not sure I understand what you > > would like to achieve with this tag. > > Right now it's not possible to simply remove the old API because some > of the maintainers want to take care of the conversion themselves, but > at the same time I also do not want to see any new releases of the > kernel that introduce more users for it. That's why it's a fix. With the assumption that the above clarification is sufficient, applied as 5.14 material, thanks!