Re: [PATCH] PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Mar 29 2022 - 15:01:15 EST
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:18:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?
Yep, I'm OK with that. I *would* like to see at least
Documentation/PCI/pci.rst updated soonish (it still refers to
pci_set_dma_mask() and friends).
Bjorn