From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] dma-mapping: move the remaining DMA API calls out of line
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 14:18:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70296d53-3504-2645-4b16-0eb73b0cd0d9@ozlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200417075852.GA20049@lst.de>
On 17/04/2020 17:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:21:37PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> And the fact they were exported leaves possibility that there is a
>> driver somewhere relying on these symbols or distro kernel won't build
>> because the symbol disappeared from exports (I do not know what KABI
>> guarantees or if mainline kernel cares).
>
> We absolutely do not care. In fact for abuses of APIs that drivers
> should not use we almost care to make them private and break people
> abusing them.
ok :)
>> I do not care in particular but
>> some might, a line separated with empty lines in the commit log would do.
>
> I'll add a blurb for the next version.
Has it gone anywhere? Thanks,
--
Alexey
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-14 12:25 generic DMA bypass flag v3 Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-14 12:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] dma-mapping: move the remaining DMA API calls out of line Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-15 2:26 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-04-15 6:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-15 11:21 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-04-17 7:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-05 4:18 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy [this message]
2020-05-09 8:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-09 14:07 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-06-03 4:13 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-07-07 0:43 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-07-07 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-14 12:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] dma-mapping: inline the fast path dma-direct calls Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-14 12:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] dma-mapping: add a dma_ops_bypass flag to struct device Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-14 12:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-18 12:42 ` Joerg Roedel
2020-04-19 8:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-19 12:25 ` Joerg Roedel
2020-04-19 14:46 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-04-14 12:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: use the generic dma_ops_bypass mode Christoph Hellwig
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