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

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Message-ID: <YkNNWy649S9i6Vbd@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:18:03 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        bhelgaas@...gle.com, arnd@...db.de, hch@...radead.org,
        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 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?