linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: zoran: move to dma-mapping interface

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Message-ID: <20180425152636.GC27076@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:26:36 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        mjpeg-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: zoran: move to dma-mapping interface

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> That thought had occurred to me as well. I removed the oldest ISDN
> drivers already some years ago, and the OSS sound drivers
> got removed as well, and comedi got converted to the dma-mapping
> interfaces, so there isn't much left at all now. This is what we
> have as of v4.17-rc1:

Yes, I've been looking at various grotty old bits to purge.  Usually
I've been looking for some non-tree wide patches and CCed the last
active people to see if they care.  In a few cases people do, but
most often no one does.

> My feeling is that we want to keep most of the arch specific
> ones, in particular removing the m68k drivers would break
> a whole class of machines.

For the arch specific ones it would good to just ping the relevant
maintainers.  Especially m68k and parisc folks seems to be very
responsive.