linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: caam: fix some compile warnings

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Message-ID: <54F6CA60.5030905@freescale.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:03:28 +0200
From:	Cristian Stoica <cristian.stoica@...escale.com>
To:	yjin <yanjiang.jin@...driver.com>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@...escale.com>
CC:	<horia.geanta@...escale.com>, <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>, <ruchika.gupta@...escale.com>,
	<NiteshNarayanLal@...escale.com>, <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jinyanjiang@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: caam: fix some compile warnings

On 03/04/2015 06:57 AM, yjin wrote:
> An alternative is moving the definitions to a ".c" file, but I don't
> think it will be fundamental different.
> I know I am fixing a potential error which doesn't exist now, it seems
> useless for the current upstream version, we can abandon my patch. But I
> still think the current implementation adds unnecessary restrictions for
> its users.

I think that both dma_map_sg_chained and dma_unmap_sg_chained should go
away. They were added to support chained scatterlists, but as far as I
verified, dma_map_sg should handle that case as well.

Kim, can you confirm this?

Cristian S.
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