On 04/16/2018 07:28 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:26:07 +0530 > >> On 04/15/2018 08:29 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> This code is only used by sparc, and all new iommu drivers should use the >>> drivers/iommu/ framework. Also remove the unused exports. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> >> >> Right, these functions are used only from SPARC architecture. Simple >> git grep confirms it as well. Hence it makes sense to move them into >> arch code instead. > > Well, we put these into a common location and used type friendly for > powerpc because we hoped powerpc would convert over to using this > common piece of code as well. > > But nobody did the powerpc work. > > If you look at the powerpc iommu support, it's the same code basically > for entry allocation. I understand. But there are some differences in iommu_table structure, how both regular and large IOMMU pools are being initialized etc. So if the movement of code into SPARC help cleaning up these generic config options in general, I guess we should do that. But I will leave it upto others who have more experience in this area. +mpe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
