linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/16] media: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0w51bnDy2whAC8WOCx2=9UB1ViX3veOfhSmQwwLr3VNQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jan 2022 19:51:47 -0500
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        awalls@...metrocast.net,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] media: Remove usage of the deprecated
 "pci-dma-compat.h" API

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:50 PM Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr> wrote:
>
> In [1], Christoph Hellwig has proposed to remove the wrappers in
> include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h.
>
> Some reasons why this API should be removed have been given by Julia
> Lawall in [2].
>
> A coccinelle script has been used to perform the needed transformation.
> It can be found in [3].
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20200421081257.GA131897@infradead.org/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007120902170.2424@hadrien/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20200716192821.321233-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr/
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Mauro, could you pick this up directly? It has no dependencies on the rest of
the series.