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

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:28:08 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        vkoul@...nel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma: ste_dma40: Remove VLA usage

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:22 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> 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.

Mixup with SuperH-based ST40?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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