Re: new TODO list item

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 01:53:25PM +0530, Suraj Upadhyay wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:12:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Janitors,
> > 
> > if someone feels like helping with a fairly trivial legacy API, the
> > wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h should go away.  This is
> > mostly trivially scriptable, except for dma_alloc_coherent, where
> > the GFP_ATOMIC passed by pci_alloc_consisteny should usually be replaced
> > with GFP_KERNEL when not calling from an atomic context.
> 
> Hii Christoph,
> 	This is my first time posting to kernel-janitors. I would be glad to
> help with this task but suggest me if I should get started with
> something else.

Sure, feel free to get started.  A coccinelle script to do the grunt
work might be useful, though.



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