Re: [PATCH 1/2] ide: remove deprecated use of pci api

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 13 2015 - 13:08:38 EST


From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:25:30 +0100

> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:46:27 +0200
> Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Replace occurences of the pci api by appropriate call to the dma api.
>>
>
> Drivers/ide is obsolete. It probably ought to go at this point but even
> so it exists solely in case of a problem or compatibility issue with
> drivers/ata. Cleaning it up without testing all the drivers makes no
> sense IMHO. Cleaning it up and testing them doesn't make much sense
> either.

It's a straightforward transformation, that actually evaluates to what
the definitions of the deprecated pci DMA interfaces are defined to.

So I intend to apply this patch, especially for the sake of allowing
these PCI DMA interfaces to be removed.
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