From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/powernv: remove dead NPU DMA code
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:45:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0ce7d72-5de7-63d3-cb4e-ea78342cb3fa@ozlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190619072837.GA6858@lst.de>
On 19/06/2019 17:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:34:54AM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23/05/2019 17:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> None of these routines were ever used since they were added to the
>>> kernel.
>>
>>
>> It is still being used exactly in the way as it was explained before in
>> previous respins. Thanks.
>
> Please point to the in-kernel user, because that is the only relevant
> one. This is not just my opinion but we had a clear discussion on that
> at least years kernel summit.
There is no in-kernel user which still does not mean that the code is
dead. If it is irrelevant - put this to the commit log instead of saying
it is dead; also if there was a clear outcome from that discussion, then
please point me to that, I do not get to attend these discussions. Thanks,
--
Alexey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-20 1:49 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 [this message]
2019-06-20 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-20 6:20 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-06-20 6:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
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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