From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stefan.wahren@i2se.com (Stefan Wahren) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:36:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [PATCH 00/16] staging: vchiq: dead code removal & misc fixes In-Reply-To: <20181120145351.30390-1-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de> References: <20181120145351.30390-1-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de> Message-ID: <2009845931.201432.1543260993249@email.ionos.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > Nicolas Saenz Julienne hat am 20. November 2018 um 15:53 geschrieben: > > > Hi All, > > This series was written in parallel with reading and understanding the > vchiq code. So excuse me for the lack of logic in the sequence of > patches. > > The main focus was to delete as much code as possible, I've counted > around 550 lines, which is not bad. Apart from that there are some > patches enforcing proper kernel APIs usage. > > The only patch that really changes code is the > vchiq_ioc_copy_element_data() rewrite. > > The last commit updates the TODO list with some of my observations, I > realise some of the might be a little opinionated. If anything it's > going to force a discussion on the topic, which is nice. > > It was developed on top of the latest linux-next, and was tested on a > RPIv3B+ with audio, video and running vchiq_test. > > Regards, > Nicolas > > RFC -> PATCH, as per Stefan's comments: > - Remove semaphore initialization from remove_event_create() > (commit 9) > - Join all three semaphore to completion patches (commit 11) > - Update probe/init commit message (commit 14) > - Update TODO commit message and clean up (commit 16) > - Fix spelling on some of the patches > The whole series is Acked-by: Stefan Wahren Unfortunately patch 05 might not apply.