netdev - Re: kill off pci_enable_msi

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Message-Id: <20170110.202024.798810764764725086.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:20:24 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, mchehab@...pensource.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kill off pci_enable_msi_{exact,range}

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Mon,  9 Jan 2017 21:37:37 +0100

> I had hope that we could kill these old interfaces of for 4.10-rc,
> but as of today Linus tree still has two users:
> 
>  (1) the cobalt media driver, for which I sent a patch long time ago,
>      it got missed in the merge window.
>  (2) the new xgbe driver was merged in 4.10-rc but used the old interfaces
>      anyway
> 
> This series resend the patch for (1) and adds a new one for (2), as well
> as having the final removal patch behind it.  Maybe we should just queue
> up all three together in the PCI tree for 4.11?

Feel free to toss this into the PCI tree.