Re: [RFC v2 00/20] Replace PCI pool by DMA pool API

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Feb 18 2017 - 08:09:40 EST


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