linux-kernel - don't pass a NULL struct device to DMA API functions

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Message-Id: <20190201084801.10983-1-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Fri,  1 Feb 2019 09:47:43 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: don't pass a NULL struct device to DMA API functions

We still have a few drivers which pass a NULL struct device pointer
to DMA API functions, which generally is a bad idea as the API
implementations rely on the device not only for ops selection, but
also the dma mask and various other attributes.

This series contains all easy conversions to pass a struct device,
besides that there also is some arch code that needs separate handling,
a driver that should not use the DMA API at all, and one that is
a complete basket case to be deal with separately.