Re: [PATCH] PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Mar 29 2022 - 14:18:23 EST


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:30:22AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Christoph mentioned several other trees that this depends on, and
> those would likely be in linux-next, but not yet in Linus' tree. The
> above poking around is from the tip of Linus' tree, which was the
> wrong place for me to look.
>
> But I did the same in current linux-next, 71941773e143 ("Add
> linux-next specific files for 20220310"), and still found quite a few
> uses. Some are in comments, printks, coccinelle scripts, etc. I
> would assume we'd want to remove them all?

I'm not sure there is much of a point to clean up the historic
comments, but it would be a nice cleanup. I'd very much like to
queue up this patch now that all the actual symbol references
are gone now. Are you ok with that?