From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/powernv: remove dead NPU DMA code
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:21:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190620062126.GA20765@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <309781b5-108f-c219-2cda-49179dca6b13@ozlabs.ru>
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 04:20:08PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>
>
> On 20/06/2019 16:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > this goes back to the discussion at last years kernel summit, where
> > we had the discussion on removing code never used by any in-kernel
> > user an no prospects of one. The IBM folks are unfortunately still
> > dragging their feet on the powerpc side. Can we revise this discussion?
> >
> > The use case here is a IBM specific bus for which they only have an
> > out of tree driver that their partner doesn't want to submit for mainline,
> > but keep insisting on keeping the code around (which is also built
> > uncondіtionally for the platform).
>
>
> I personally keep insisting on correct commit logs, i.e. not calling
> working code dead and providing actual reasons for the change. Thanks,
If that is the only thing you are complaining about I can clarify it
a little of course. But it didn't sound like that was the actual
problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-20 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-23 7:49 remove dead powernv code v2 Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-23 7:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/powernv: remove the unused pnv_pci_set_p2p function Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-23 7:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/powernv: remove the unused tunneling exports Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-21 1:47 ` Oliver O'Halloran
2019-06-21 9:21 ` Frederic Barrat
2019-06-21 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-23 7:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/powernv: remove dead NPU DMA code Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-19 0:34 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-06-19 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-20 1:45 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-06-20 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-20 6:20 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-06-20 6:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-06-20 6:48 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-05-23 7:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/powernv: remove the unused vas_win_paste_addr and vas_win_id functions Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-21 1:40 ` Oliver O'Halloran
2019-06-17 6:46 ` remove dead powernv code v2 Christoph Hellwig
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