Re: [PATCH v2] mei: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API

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On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 7:36 AM Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> 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").
>
> A coccinelle script has been used to perform the needed transformation
> Only relevant parts are given below.
>
> @@
> expression e1, e2;
> @@
> -    pci_set_dma_mask(e1, e2)
> +    dma_set_mask(&e1->dev, e2)
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20200421081257.GA131897@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007120902170.2424@hadrien/
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Change Subject to be more explicit
>     Keep only relevant part of the coccinelle script
>     Try to improve the commit message to give some reason of why this change is done

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>



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