Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: remove DMA_MEMCPY_SG once again

From: Michal Simek
Date: Wed Jun 22 2022 - 11:24:51 EST




On 6/22/22 16:50, Adrian Larumbe wrote:
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On 07.06.2022 09:33, Vinod Koul wrote:
There are no clients in mainline which call this API. There is a driver
which implements this API, but no users...

$ git grep dmaengine_prep_dma_memcpy_sg
include/linux/dmaengine.h:static inline struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dmaengine_prep_dma_memcpy_sg(

This is true, when I sent this I thought my at the time employer had already
upstreamed their driver changes which make this of this API call, but apparently
it never happened after I left.

In this wise, this change series should probably go away altogether, even if
that means it leaves that driver feature unutilised.

We also don't have a need for it. Driver which was using it is no longer used that's why not a problem to remove it.

That's why
Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Michal