On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:57:10PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 06:42 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:56:16PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > Most architectures implement the dma_cache_wback, dma_cache_wback_inv
> > > and dma_cache_wback_inv functions even though there is the more modern
> > > and much better designed DMA API and only two MIPS-specific users (one of
> > > which I just fixed) do remain.  So should we finally start removing it?
> > 
> > There's still some users in arch/, but yes, let's remove it from the
> > arches that don't use it internally.
> 
> There's the updated dma_cache_sync() API, which you need to keep because
> the parisc lasi scsi and network drivers rely on it for our fully
> incoherent boxes.

I wasn't thinking of touching dma_cache_sync, only the three mentioned
mostly unused ones.

  Ralf
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