linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] at12: use pci_zalloc instead of pci

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Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 06:00:45 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Robert Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...il.com>
Cc:     Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@...il.com>,
        Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] at12: use pci_zalloc instead of pci_alloc

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:09:52PM -0800, Robert Eshleman wrote:
> This patch replaces a pci_alloc and memset(,0) call
> with a single call to pci_zalloc.

Please don't move from one deprecated API to another one.  If you feel
like cleaning up DMA API calls please move to dma_alloc_coherent,
and do that for the whole DMA API usage.