[PATCH 1/7] MIPS: Remove DMA_PERDEV_COHERENT

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:46:07PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> As now we are always managing DMA coherence on per dev bias,
> there is no need to have such option. And it's not selected
> by any platform.

I think the real point here is that this is dead code, so it can
obviously go away, but:

>  config MIPS_GENERIC_KERNEL
>  	bool "Generic board-agnostic MIPS kernel"
> -	select ARCH_HAS_SETUP_DMA_OPS
>  	select MIPS_GENERIC
>  	select BOOT_RAW
>  	select BUILTIN_DTB
> @@ -1079,11 +1078,6 @@ config FW_CFE
>  config ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
>  	bool

> @@ -1097,6 +1091,7 @@ config DMA_NONCOHERENT
>  	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_PREP_COHERENT
>  	select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE
>  	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_UNCACHED
> +	select ARCH_HAS_SETUP_DMA_OPS

This is an unrelated und undocument change.  If you want to do it,
please do that as a separate patch with a commit log documenting
the rationale.