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

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 08 November 2012 12:31:48 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:22:05 +0100
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Sorry ? There are potentially lots of out of tree users in both the ARM
> and x86 communities.

They had almost six years to submit their code to upstream and there is
potentially no problem for these _out_of_tree_ users to maintain also
memset code out of tree.  

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