linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 00/15] Replace PCI pool by DMA pool API

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Message-ID: <4848adf5-4e1a-f1df-f004-607f3655f375@collabora.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:47:50 +0200
From:   Romain Perier <romain.perier@...labora.com>
To:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, stas.yakovlev@...il.com,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/15] Replace PCI pool by DMA pool API

Hello,


Le 09/07/2017 à 23:30, Doug Ledford a écrit :
> On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 10:12 +0200, Romain Perier wrote:
>> The current PCI pool API are simple macro functions direct expanded
>> to
>> the appropriate dma pool functions. The prototypes are almost the
>> same
>> and semantically, they are very similar. I propose to use the DMA
>> pool
>> API directly and get rid of the old API.
>>
>> This set of patches, replaces the old API by the dma pool API
>> and remove the defines.
> Is someone planning on merging this series?  If not, I'll send through
> the patches I've personally tested (3, 5, and 6).

Not sure, I just know that Greg has merged patches for usb gadget.

Regards,
Romain