linux-kernel - Re: remove the dma_set_{max_seg_size,seg_boundary,min_align

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Message-ID: <yq1v7zkdu3s.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:57:13 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: iommu@...ts.linux.dev, "Martin K. Petersen"
 <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Marek
 Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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Subject: Re: remove the dma_set_{max_seg_size,seg_boundary,min_align_mask}
 return value v2


Christoph,

> the above three functions can only return errors if the bus code
> failed to allocate the dma_parms structure, which is a grave error
> that won't get us far. Thus remove the pointless return values, that
> so far have fortunately been mostly ignored, but which the cleanup
> brigade now wants to check for for no good reason.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering