linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genirq/msi: Remove msi_post

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Message-ID: <87segm9syx.ffs@tglx>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:01:58 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Nicholas Piggin
 <npiggin@...il.com>, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
 linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free()

On Tue, Sep 16 2025 at 08:10, Nam Cao wrote:

> The only user of msi_post_free() - powerpc/pseries - has been changed to
> use msi_teardown().
>
> Remove this unused callback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>
> ---
> This patch depends on the powerpc/series conversion patch, which is
> currently in powerpc tree:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c7a6d8f27fd217021dea4daad777e81a525ae460.1754903590.git.namcao@linutronix.de/
>
> I think it is most convenient to apply this patch to powerpc tree, if
> everyone is okay with that?

Yes.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>