>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ralf> 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.

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

Ralf,

Only issue I could think off would be the m68k drivers, but I don't
know if that ever migrated to the MIPS API or stayed with the old m68k
one - Geert and comments?

Cheers,
Jes
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