Re: [PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 08 November 2012 12:12:31 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:58:17 +0100
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH] DMA: remove unused support for MEMSET operations
> > 
> > There have never been any real users of MEMSET operations
> 
> In tree users.

Please show me them.  There were no users except self-test one
(which this patch also removes), the whole memset code has been
dead since its introduction in January 2007.

> And is it broken, if not why do you want to break it ?

Well, it is partially broken as async_memset.c doesn't even built
currently in next (I've posted fix for that before noticing that
the whole code can be removed).

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung Poland R&D Center
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