On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 10:41:03AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > The virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt interface has been deprecated for > decades. After Jakub Kicinski put a lot of work into cleaning out the > network drivers using them, there are only a couple of other drivers > left, which can all be removed or otherwise cleaned up, to remove the > old interface for good. > > Any out of tree drivers using virt_to_bus() should be converted to > using the dma-mapping interfaces, typically dma_alloc_coherent() > or dma_map_single()). > > There are a few m68k and ppc32 specific drivers that keep using the > interfaces, but these are all guarded with architecture-specific > Kconfig dependencies, and are not actually broken. > > There are still a number of drivers that are using virt_to_phys() > and phys_to_virt() in place of dma-mapping operations, and these > are often broken, but they are out of scope for this series. I'll take patches 1 and 2 right now through my staging tree if that's ok. thanks, greg k-h
