linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] use pci_zalloc

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Date:   Tue, 05 Jun 2018 09:00:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     andy.shevchenko@...il.com, yuehaibing@...wei.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jcliburn@...il.com, chris.snook@...il.com, benve@...co.com,
        jdmason@...zu.us, chessman@....org, jes@...ined-monkey.org,
        rahul.verma@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] use pci_zalloc_consistent

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:49:29 +0200

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 03:39:16PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:28 PM, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com> wrote:
>> >
>> 
>> Hmm... Is PCI case anyhow special or it's a simple wrapper on top of
>> dma.*alloc() ?
> 
> All drivers should move from pci_dma* to dma_* eventually.  Converting
> from one flavor of deprecated to another is completely pointless.

Agreed.