Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 2019 17:35:52 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: remove NULL struct device support in the DMA API |
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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 > _______________________________________________ > iommu mailing list > iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu ---end quoted text---
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