From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] docs: add bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt to core-api
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 06:22:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522062225.6f73d811@coco.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515115321.6e00ba57@lwn.net>
Em Fri, 15 May 2020 11:53:21 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
> On Fri, 1 May 2020 17:37:46 +0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > This describes an old interface used prior the new DMA-API
> > interfaces. Add it to the core-api guide, just after the
> > DMA stuff.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > .../bus-virt-phys-mapping.rst} | 0
> > Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > rename Documentation/{bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt => core-api/bus-virt-phys-mapping.rst} (100%)
>
> For this one, I think we should maybe just delete the file. It contains a
> warning from *20 years ago* saying not to use it, and talks about
> functions like isa_readl() that haven't existed i the kernel for some
> time. Is there any reason to keep dragging it around?
Except for "keeping it for historical reasons" (as mentioned at the
file), I don't see any reason why to keep it.
It might be useful if someone wants to port some OOT code based on
a legacy kernel.
Yet, if you prefer to just trash it, I'm ok with that.
Thanks,
Mauro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-22 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 15:37 [PATCH 00/14] Move the ReST files from Documentation/*.txt Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/14] docs: move DMA kAPI to Documentation/core-api Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-15 17:52 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 02/14] docs: add bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt to core-api Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-15 17:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-22 4:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
[not found] ` <cover.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 03/14] docs: fix references for DMA*.txt files Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
[not found] ` <0539f4b4b442dba92358b6c8d9e8fb5eafcec693.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2020-05-01 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-01 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-15 17:54 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-15 17:54 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 04/14] docs: move IPMI.txt to the driver API book Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 16:16 ` Corey Minyard
2020-05-15 17:56 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 05/14] docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 06/14] docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-15 18:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-22 4:26 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 07/14] docs: add IRQ documentation at " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-02 7:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-02 7:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-02 10:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-02 10:16 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-02 11:21 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-02 11:21 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-15 18:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-15 18:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 08/14] docs: move kobject and kref docs into " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-15 18:03 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 09/14] docs: move digsig docs to the security book Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-15 18:04 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 10/14] docs: move locking-specific documenta to locking/ directory Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-15 18:06 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-22 4:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 11/14] docs: move other kAPI documents to core-api Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-02 7:43 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-02 7:43 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-15 18:10 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-15 18:10 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 12/14] docs: move remaining stuff under Documentation/*.txt to Documentation/staging Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-03 23:54 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-03 23:54 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-05-04 0:47 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-04 0:47 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-04 9:51 ` Naveen N. Rao
2020-05-04 9:51 ` Naveen N. Rao
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 13/14] docs: staging: don't use literalinclude Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 14/14] docs: staging: use small font for literal includes Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-02 0:10 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-02 10:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-05-04 9:25 ` [PATCH 00/14] Move the ReST files from Documentation/*.txt Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-04 9:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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