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Message-ID: <5fc31a39-2068-4fff-b9bf-27feb4ca3bbe@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:58:07 +0100
From: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixmap: Remove unused set_fixmap_offset_io()

On 12/06/2024 21:02, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024, at 18:00, Steven Price wrote:
>> The macro set_fixmap_offset_io() was added in commit f774b7d10e21
>> ("arm64: fixmap: fix missing sub-page offset for earlyprintk") but then
>> commit 8ef0ed95ee04 ("arm64: remove arch specific earlyprintk") removed
>> the file causing the only user to be removed when the two commits were
>> merged. Since this has never been used again since the v3.15 release
>> remove it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
>> ---
>> This came up because for Arm CCA there is a need to override
>> set_fixmap_io() [1] and rather than also update set_fixmap_offset_io() I
>> thought it would be better to just drop the unused macro.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240605093006.145492-6-steven.price@arm.com/
> 
> I assume you want to keep this with your other patch, so
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Actually for now it looks[1] like we're going to drop the overriding of 
set_fixmap_io() so if you want to apply this change separately please 
do!

Thanks,

Steve

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/b611bb5f-b6f8-44a4-9b33-a92862974363%40arm.com

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