linux-kernel - Re: [resend2 PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:20:53 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <djbw@...com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [resend2 PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> wrote:
> There have never been any real users of MEMSET operations
> since they have been introduced in January 2007 (commit
> 7405f74badf46b5d023c5d2b670b4471525f6c91 "dmaengine: refactor
> dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor").  Therefore remove
> support for them for now, it can be always brought back when
> needed.
>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@...com>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> ---

I see Andrew has already picked this up.

Acked-by: Dan Williams <djbw@...com>
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