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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS
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To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Hi Geert,

On 27/06/22 20:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 3:06 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am 18.06.2022 um 00:57 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
>>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>>
>>> All architecture-independent users of virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt()
>>> have been fixed to use the dma mapping interfaces or have been
>>> removed now.  This means the definitions on most architectures, and the
>>> CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS symbol are now obsolete and can be removed.
>>>
>>> The only exceptions to this are a few network and scsi drivers for m68k
>>> Amiga and VME machines and ppc32 Macintosh. These drivers work correctly
>>> with the old interfaces and are probably not worth changing.
>> The Amiga SCSI drivers are all old WD33C93 ones, and replacing
>> virt_to_bus by virt_to_phys in the dma_setup() function there would
>> cause no functional change at all.
> FTR, the sgiwd93 driver use dma_map_single().

Thanks! From what I see, it doesn't have to deal with bounce buffers 
though?

Cheers,

     Michael


>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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