linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API

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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:00:59 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        bhelgaas@...gle.com, arnd@...db.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:18:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:30:22AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Christoph mentioned several other trees that this depends on, and
> > those would likely be in linux-next, but not yet in Linus' tree.  The
> > above poking around is from the tip of Linus' tree, which was the
> > wrong place for me to look.
> > 
> > But I did the same in current linux-next, 71941773e143 ("Add
> > linux-next specific files for 20220310"), and still found quite a few
> > uses.  Some are in comments, printks, coccinelle scripts, etc.  I
> > would assume we'd want to remove them all?
> 
> I'm not sure there is much of a point to clean up the historic
> comments, but it would be a nice cleanup.  I'd very much like to
> queue up this patch now that all the actual symbol references
> are gone now.  Are you ok with that?

Yep, I'm OK with that.  I *would* like to see at least
Documentation/PCI/pci.rst updated soonish (it still refers to
pci_set_dma_mask() and friends).

Bjorn