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SubjectRe: [PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations
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On Thursday 08 November 2012 12:12:31 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:58:17 +0100
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.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


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