Re: [PATCH 6/6] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 11:10 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

All architecture-independent users of virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt()
have been fixed to use the dma mapping interfaces or have been
removed now.  This means the definitions on most architectures, and the
CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS symbol are now obsolete and can be removed.

The only exceptions to this are a few network and scsi drivers for m68k
Amiga and VME machines and ppc32 Macintosh. These drivers work correctly
with the old interfaces and are probably not worth changing.

On alpha and parisc, virt_to_bus() were still used in asm/floppy.h.
alpha can use isa_virt_to_bus() like x86 does, and parisc can just
open-code the virt_to_phys() here, as this is architecture specific
code.

I tried updating the bus-virt-phys-mapping.rst documentation, which
started as an email from Linus to explain some details of the Linux-2.0
driver interfaces. The bits about virt_to_bus() were declared obsolete
backin 2000, and the rest is not all that relevant any more, so in the
end I just decided to remove the file completely.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

 arch/m68k/Kconfig                             |   1 -
 arch/m68k/include/asm/virtconvert.h           |   4 +-

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds



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