From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Russell King <linux-I+IVW8TIWO2tmTQ+vhA3Yw@public.gmane.org>,
x86-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
Sudip Mukherjee
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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Subject: Re: remove NULL struct device support in the DMA API
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:35:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190403153552.GA26129@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190321225235.30648-1-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
Any comments on the remaining patches? I'd like to give this series
a couple weeks of soaking in linux-next before the end of the merge
window, so reviews would be apprciated.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:52:28PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We still have a few drivers which pass a NULL struct device pointer
> to DMA API functions, which generally is a bad idea as the API
> implementations rely on the device not only for ops selection, but
> also the dma mask and various other attributes, and many implementations
> have been broken for NULL device support for a while.
>
> This series removes the few remaning users that weren't picked up in
> the last merge window and then removes core support for this "feature".
>
> A git tree is also available at:
>
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git dma-remove-NULL-dev-support
>
> Gitweb:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/dma-remove-NULL-dev-support
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-03 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-21 22:52 remove NULL struct device support in the DMA API Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 1/7] parport_ip32: pass struct device to DMA API functions Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 2/7] da8xx-fb: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-03 15:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 3/7] gbefb: switch to managed version of the DMA allocator Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-01 15:38 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 4/7] pxa3xx-gcu: pass struct device to dma_mmap_coherent Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-03 15:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 5/7] arm: use a dummy struct device for ISA DMA use of the DMA API Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 6/7] dma-mapping: remove leftover NULL device support Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 7/7] x86: remove the x86_dma_fallback_dev hack Christoph Hellwig
2019-03-23 11:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <20190321225235.30648-1-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2019-04-03 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-04-03 18:26 ` remove NULL struct device support in the DMA API Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-04-03 19:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
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