From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:53:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v3 09/31] arm64: Cache maintenance routines In-Reply-To: References: <1347035226-18649-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1347035226-18649-10-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201209071928.09999.arnd@arndb.de> <20120910164815.GB8238@arm.com> Message-ID: <20120914165331.GA2927@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:29:21PM +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:28:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Friday 07 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > + > > > > +/* > > > > + * dmac_inv_range(start,end) > > > > > > all of these appear to be unused now. Can you remove them? > > > > They aren't currently used but I expect some partners to make use of > > them on their private development. I could drop them from the upstream > > branch temporarily. > > Depends. If your expectation from those partners is a real probability > then it is best to keep a skeleton in place for them to use, otherwise > they might get ... creative. If this is just wild speculation then you > should drop it. I dropped them for now since there is no API using those functions. But I have a feeling they will be needed at some point (so I'll keep the patches around). -- Catalin