netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] use pci_zalloc

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Message-ID: <8bb9feec-790c-d6f9-1546-278434c6a93e@huawei.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 21:04:11 +0800
From:   YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <jcliburn@...il.com>, <chris.snook@...il.com>, <benve@...co.com>,
        Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>, <chessman@....org>,
        <jes@...ined-monkey.org>, <rahul.verma@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] use pci_zalloc_consistent

On 2018/6/5 20:46, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 03:39:16PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:28 PM, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm... Is PCI case anyhow special or it's a simple wrapper on top of
>>> dma.*alloc() ?
>>
>> All drivers should move from pci_dma* to dma_* eventually.  Converting
>> from one flavor of deprecated to another is completely pointless.
> 
> Exactly my impression. Thanks, Christoph for clarification.
> 
> YueHaibing, care to follow what Christoph said and change your series
> accordingly?

ok, will send v2
>