netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sky2: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma

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Date:   Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:40:28 +0200
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, mlindner@...vell.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        hch@...radead.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sky2: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API

Le 12/07/2020 à 08:32, Joe Perches a écrit :
> On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 08:29 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> Le 11/07/2020 à 23:20, Joe Perches a écrit :
>>> On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 22:49 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>>>> The wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h should go away.
>>> why?
>>>
>>>
>>   From Christoph Hellwig
>> https://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=158745678307186&w=4
> There's no why there.
> There's just an assertion a wrapper should "go away".
>
> "the wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h should go away"
>
> wrappers aren't all bad.
>
>
Adding Christoph Hellwig to shed some light.

CJ