On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 7:20 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").
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>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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
