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From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:42:23 -0800

> So whilst I totally agree that copying around the whole frame is awful,
> it's a separate problem to the length used for DMA mapping being
> incorrect which is what this patch addresses & I'd rather not start
> adding more & more fixes or cleanups into this initial series before the
> driver is even functional on my hardware.

Agreed.