[PATCH 4/7] ARM: remove the unused virt_to_dma helper

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Thu Apr 21 01:00:55 PDT 2022


On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:42 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

I generally prefer to have at least something useful in the description, e.g.
why it's now unused and what it was used for before.

> -static inline dma_addr_t virt_to_dma(struct device *dev, void *addr)
> -{
> -       if (dev)
> -               return pfn_to_dma(dev, virt_to_pfn(addr));
> -
> -       return (dma_addr_t)__virt_to_bus((unsigned long)(addr));
> -}

I think __virt_to_bus() is now unused as well and could be removed
in the same step.

It looks like __bus_to_virt() is still used in the ISA DMA API, but
as that is only used on footbridge and rpc, the generic version of
that could be moved into rpc (footbridge already has a custom
version).

    Arnd



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