linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma: ste_dma40: Remove VLA usage

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:21:35 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, vkoul@...nel.org,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma: ste_dma40: Remove VLA usage

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:22 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> - Nobody uses this driver in practice, as the hardware platform
>   was a dead end

Depends what you mean with dead end.

The hardware was deployed in a few million handsets from Samsung
and Sony.

Some have been picked up as targets for PostmarketOS:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Advance_(samsung-i9070)
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SIII_mini_(samsung-i8190)

So it is no more dead end than anything else discontinued, and it
has a living community who want it suppored by the mainline
kernel if possible.

Yours,
Linus Walleij