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

Max Gurtovoy maxg at mellanox.com
Wed Jul 10 01:06:54 AEST 2019


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...

Also this code was merged before the p2p API for p2pmem.



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