On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:46:07PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > As now we are always managing DMA coherence on per dev bias, > there is no need to have such option. And it's not selected > by any platform. I think the real point here is that this is dead code, so it can obviously go away, but: > config MIPS_GENERIC_KERNEL > bool "Generic board-agnostic MIPS kernel" > - select ARCH_HAS_SETUP_DMA_OPS > select MIPS_GENERIC > select BOOT_RAW > select BUILTIN_DTB > @@ -1079,11 +1078,6 @@ config FW_CFE > config ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES > bool > @@ -1097,6 +1091,7 @@ config DMA_NONCOHERENT > select ARCH_HAS_DMA_PREP_COHERENT > select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE > select ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED > + select ARCH_HAS_SETUP_DMA_OPS This is an unrelated und undocument change. If you want to do it, please do that as a separate patch with a commit log documenting the rationale.