From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/20] Replace PCI pool by DMA pool API Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:06:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20170218130600.GA24938@kroah.com> References: <20170218083556.20215-1-romain.perier@collabora.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170218083556.20215-1-romain.perier@collabora.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Romain Perier Cc: Dan Williams , Doug Ledford , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, "David S. Miller" , stas.yakovlev@gmail.com, "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , Felipe Balbi , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Senna Tschudin List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 09:35:36AM +0100, Romain Perier wrote: > The current PCI pool API are simple macro functions direct expanded to > the appropriated dma pool functions. The prototypes are almost the same > and semantically, they are very similar. I propose to use the DMA pool > API directly and get rid of the old API. > > This set of patches, replaces the old API by the dma pool API, adds > support to warn about this old API in checkpath.pl and remove the > defines. Why is this a "RFC" series? Personally, I never apply those as it implies that the author doesn't think they are ready to be merged :) thanks, greg k-h