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

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Le 18/02/2017 à 14:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman a écrit :
> 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
Hi,

I was not sure about this. I have noticed that most of the API changes
are tagged as RFC.
I can re-send a v3 without the prefix RFC if you prefer.

Thanks,
Romain

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Re: [RFC v2 00/20] Replace PCI pool by DMA pool API Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-02-18 14:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC v2 00/20] Replace PCI pool by DMA pool API Romain Perier <romain.perier@collabora.com> - 2017-02-18 19:00 +0100

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