netdev - Re: net: don't pass a NULL struct device to DMA API functions v2

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Message-Id: <20190212.090938.1241676476384735940.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:09:38 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: don't pass a NULL struct device to DMA API functions v2

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:19:56 +0100

> We still have a few drivers which pass a NULL struct device pointer
> to DMA API functions, which generally is a bad idea as the API
> implementations rely on the device not only for ops selection, but
> also the dma mask and various other attributes.
> 
> This series contains all easy conversions to pass a struct device,
> besides that there also is some arch code that needs separate handling,
> a driver that should not use the DMA API at all, and one that is
> a complete basket case to be deal with separately.
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - fix an inverted ifdef in CAIF
>  - update the smc911x changelog
>  - split the series, this only contains the networking patches

Series applied, thanks.