On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 03:18:38PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 07:22:27PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > devm semantics arrange for resources to be torn down when > > device-driver-probe fails or when device-driver-release completes. > > Similar to devm_memremap_pages() there is no need to support an explicit > > remove operation when the users properly adhere to devm semantics. > > > > Note that devm_kzalloc() automatically handles allocating node-local > > memory. > > > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > Given that we have no single user of these function I still think we > should just remove them. It is in the process of being upstreamed: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=nouveau-hmm-v01 and more users are coming for other devices. Yes it is taking time ... things never goes as planed. Cheers, Jérôme