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

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 15:46:02 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        jcliburn@...il.com, chris.snook@...il.com, benve@...co.com,
        Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>, chessman@....org,
        jes@...ined-monkey.org, rahul.verma@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] use pci_zalloc_consistent

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> 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.

Exactly my impression. Thanks, Christoph for clarification.

YueHaibing, care to follow what Christoph said and change your series
accordingly?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko