From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755429Ab2KHLY3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2012 06:24:29 -0500 Received: from mailout1.samsung.com ([203.254.224.24]:28434 "EHLO mailout1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755066Ab2KHLX2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2012 06:23:28 -0500 X-AuditID: cbfee61b-b7f616d00000319b-c9-509b962e0f72 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:22:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/3.5.0-rc2+; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vinod Koul , Dan Williams , Tomasz Figa , Kyungmin Park References: <201211081058.17897.b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> <20121108111231.1fc95397@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-reply-to: <20121108111231.1fc95397@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-version: 1.0 Message-id: <201211081222.05612.b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Content-type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFlrFLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t9jQV29abMDDDqXG1tc3jWHzYHR4/Mm uQDGKC6blNSczLLUIn27BK6Mnt0X2AoesVXc6VjO1sC4jbWLkYNDQsBE4vxd+y5GTiBTTOLC vfVsXYxcHEIC0xklZq38D+UsZZKYfHcxO0gVm4CVxMT2VYwgtoiAusTUFdPZQGxhAVeJu2+/ gtksAqoSq042gdWLCjhIdE6dADaIWWADo8SdeXNZQRJCAlkS/1fOAWvgFLCWOHfyPNhQXgFB iR+T77FA2JYSi6ffBhvELKAl0fxmEyOELS+xec1b5gmMArOQtMxCUjYLSdkCRuZVjKKpBckF xUnpuUZ6xYm5xaV56XrJ+bmbGMEh+Ex6B+OqBotDjAIcjEo8vBqSswOEWBPLiitzDzFKcDAr ifByTAAK8aYkVlalFuXHF5XmpBYfYpTmYFES5232SAkQEkhPLEnNTk0tSC2CyTJxcEo1MDYv 1t3Yfzrq0LwJrHO/2zOWvpTv5uea28gWNv9Mx40Y0+IT82ek7pv69YHlpaebqmxOve1zXX7h yvT+PYV8E72aNVhLDHY9SNR7+aN+0dEzuVM8PGYKTt973yDLzGu5uPXSyU9Zv548xhCx94br 4YT5emwrv/iKX3g31+ItC38P/0OOuW0l8z8psRRnJBpqMRcVJwIAjr8L2j0CAAA= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 08 November 2012 12:12:31 Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:58:17 +0100 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > Subject: [PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations > > > > There have never been any real users of MEMSET operations > > In tree users. Please show me them. There were no users except self-test one (which this patch also removes), the whole memset code has been dead since its introduction in January 2007. > And is it broken, if not why do you want to break it ? Well, it is partially broken as async_memset.c doesn't even built currently in next (I've posted fix for that before noticing that the whole code can be removed). Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung Poland R&D Center