[PATCH 1/3] powerpc/powernv: remove the unused pnv_pci_set_p2p function

'gregkh@linuxfoundation.org' gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 10 06:02:29 AEST 2019


On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:06:54PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> 
> On 7/9/2019 5:40 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 05:37:18PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> > > On 7/9/2019 5:32 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 05:31:37PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> > > > > Are we ok with working on a solution during kernel-5.3 cycle ?
> > > > You can start working on it any time, no need to ask for permission.
> > > I just want to make sure we don't remove it from the kernel before we send
> > > a general API solution.
> > The code is gone in this merge window.
> 
> Ok, so we must fix it to kernel-5.3 to make sure we're covered.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> > 
> > > This way we'll make sure that all the kernel versions has this
> > > functionality...
> > Again, we do not provide functionality for out of tree modules.  We've
> > had the p2p API for about a year now, its not like you didn't have
> > plenty of time.
> 
> I didn't know about the intention to remove this code...

The original email you responded to in this thread was received by you
back in May.  It is now July, 5.3 will not be out for 8-9 weeks.  There
has been plenty of time here...

greg k-h


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