Re: [PATCH 06/16] sparc: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jan 07 2022 - 06:04:25 EST


From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:51:38 +0100

> In [1], Christoph Hellwig has proposed to remove the wrappers in
> include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h.
>
> Some reasons why this API should be removed have been given by Julia
> Lawall in [2].
>
> A coccinelle script has been used to perform the needed transformation.
> It can be found in [3].
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20200421081257.GA131897@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007120902170.2424@hadrien/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20200716192821.321233-1-christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>