netdev - Re: kill off pci_enable_msi

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Message-ID: <20170112212900.GE8312@bhelgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:29:00 -0600
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: kill off pci_enable_msi_{exact,range}

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 09:37:37PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

Applied all three (with Tom's ack on the amd-xgbe patch) to pci/msi for
v4.11, thanks!