[PATCH v3 09/31] arm64: Cache maintenance routines

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Sep 10 13:29:21 EDT 2012


On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:28:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 07 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + *	dmac_inv_range(start,end)
> > 
> > all of these appear to be unused now. Can you remove them?
> 
> They aren't currently used but I expect some partners to make use of
> them on their private development. I could drop them from the upstream
> branch temporarily.

Depends.  If your expectation from those partners is a real probability 
then it is best to keep a skeleton in place for them to use, otherwise 
they might get ... creative.  If this is just wild speculation then you 
should drop it.


Nicolas



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