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Message-id: <201211081222.05612.b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:22:05 +0100 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, Dan Williams <djbw@...com>, Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations On Thursday 08 November 2012 12:12:31 Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:58:17 +0100 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> wrote: > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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