linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove DMA_MEMCPY

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:50:21 +0100
From:   Adrian Larumbe <adrianml@...mnos.upm.es>
To:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, michal.simek@...inx.com,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove DMA_MEMCPY_SG once again

On 07.06.2022 09:33, Vinod Koul wrote:
> There are no clients in mainline which call this API. There is a driver
> which implements this API, but no users...
> 
> $ git grep dmaengine_prep_dma_memcpy_sg
> include/linux/dmaengine.h:static inline struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_dma_memcpy_sg(

This is true, when I sent this I thought my at the time employer had already
upstreamed their driver changes which make this of this API call, but apparently
it never happened after I left.

In this wise, this change series should probably go away altogether, even if
that means it leaves that driver feature unutilised.

Adrian Larumbe