linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to dectect in zalloc-simple.cocci

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Date:   Sat, 18 Aug 2018 22:10:26 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
CC:     Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>, <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>, <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to dectect
 in zalloc-simple.cocci

On 2018/8/18 22:01, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018, zhong jiang wrote:
>
>> On 2018/8/18 20:52, Himanshu Jha wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 08:01:40PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>>>> Because pci_alloc_consistent has been deprecated. We prefer to use
>>>> dam_alloc_coherent directly. Therefore, we should remove pci_alloc_consistent
>>>   ^^^ typo "dma"
>>>
>>> Also, typo in the patch subject "dectect" -> "detect"
>>  Thanks,  will fix it in v2.
>>> Otherwise,
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks for cleaning up, we still have few more *_alloc/memset
>>> in the mainline, especially in the scsi subsystem, even after
>>> I cleaned up with two long patch series in the past.
>>>
>>    I post same patches like *_alloc/memset in the scsi subsystem. Unfortunately,
>>    Maintainer maybe do not care about the change.  therefore,  None of my patches
>>   are received and rarely feedback.
> Maybe they will be picked up later.
 Hope so.  It's been more than a month since I post the patches. Maybe I should give a kindly ping. :-)

 Thanks,
 zhong jiang 
> julia
>
> .
>