From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1649FC433E0 for ; Fri, 15 May 2020 17:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B7020758 for ; Fri, 15 May 2020 17:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726290AbgEORxX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2020 13:53:23 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:53558 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726144AbgEORxX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2020 13:53:23 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0071E736; Fri, 15 May 2020 17:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 11:53:21 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Jordan , Masahiro Yamada , Mike Rapoport Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] docs: add bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt to core-api Message-ID: <20200515115321.6e00ba57@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 May 2020 17:37:46 +0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > This describes an old interface used prior the new DMA-API > interfaces. Add it to the core-api guide, just after the > DMA stuff. > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab > --- > .../bus-virt-phys-mapping.rst} | 0 > Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 + > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+) > rename Documentation/{bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt => core-api/bus-virt-phys-mapping.rst} (100%) For this one, I think we should maybe just delete the file. It contains a warning from *20 years ago* saying not to use it, and talks about functions like isa_readl() that haven't existed i the kernel for some time. Is there any reason to keep dragging it around? jon