On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 06:32:08PM +0200, Théo Lebrun wrote:

Hello Conor,

On Fri Jul 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM CEST, Conor Dooley wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Théo Lebrun wrote:

quoted

Since commit 4df95131ea80 ("net/macb: change RX path for GEM") those
functions have not been only allocating or freeing consistent memory
mappings.

Rename from macb_alloc_consistent() to macb_alloc() and
       from macb_free_consistent()  to macb_free().

What does "consistent" even mean? Is it intended to be analogous to
coherent?

That's my guess. We used to have pci_alloc_consistent(), being an alias
to dma_alloc_coherent().

This alias has been present since forever (since Git):

   git show 1da177e4c3f4:include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h

The alias got removed in commit 7968778914e5 ("PCI: Remove the
deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API", 2022-03-09).

Right, I did figure given the commit you cited as being the end of it
that it was something like that.
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>