[PATCH 00/10] cxl: Remove abandonned capi support for the Mellanox CX4

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 26/06/18 02:23, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> An attempt was made to add capi support for the Mellanox CX4 card, so
> that it could operate in "traditional" PCI mode or capi mode. The
> project ended up being canceled and a different approach was taken for
> CX5. Mellanox never upstreamed any capi support in their CX4 driver.
> 
> CX4 was not following exactly the CAIA 1.0 model, so some CX4-specific
> code was added. That code is now dead and hasn't been tested for a
> while, so it's probably broken anyway. Let's remove it. It has been
> agreed with engineers at Mellanox, of course.
> 
> No user API is affected. Some (unused) symbols exported by cxl are removed.
> 
> Most of the patch set consists of reverts of older patches, with
> sometimes very minor tweaking. The last patch aggregates a few changes
> where reverting was not possible easily.
> 
> Tests run to prevent regressions:
> -  memcpy tests on POWER8 and POWER9
> -  Mellanox CX5, which uses a different code path, based on cxllib
> -  cxlflash tests on POWER8

9 of these commits are missing Signed-off-bys.

git revert -s is a thing :)

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited