Re: remove pci_dma_* abuses and workarounds V2

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[+cc David]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 07:03:18PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Back before the dawn of time pci_dma_* with a NULL pci_dev argument
> was used for all kinds of things, e.g. dma mapping for non-PCI
> devices.  All this has been long removed, but it turns out we
> still care for a NULL pci_dev in the wrappers, and we still have
> two odd USB drivers that use pci_dma_alloc_consistent for allocating
> memory while ignoring the dma_addr_t entirely, and a network driver
> mixing the already wrong usage of dma_* with a NULL device with a
> single call to pci_free_consistent.
> 
> This series switches the two usb drivers to use plain kzalloc, the
> net driver to properly use the dma API and then removes the handling
> of the NULL pci_dev in the pci_dma_* wrappers.
> 
> Changes since V1:
>  - remove allocation failure printks
>  - use kcalloc
>  - fix tsi108_eth
>  - improve changelogs

Applied to pci/dma for v4.16, thanks!



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