[PATCH] DMA: Fix Marvell Orion and mv_xor after MEMSET removal

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon Jul 1 17:37:06 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:42:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 11:04:07 -0400 Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > > Commit 834cbfe966bece50afded79da8e975d255bf0772
> > >  ("drivers/dma: remove unused support for MEMSET operations")
> > > removes MEMSET from dmaengine but does not completely removes it from
> > > Marvell Orion (arch/arm/plat-orion) and XOR (drivers/dma/mv_xor).
> > > This also fixes some compiler warnings about now obsolete functions by
> > > removing those.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > Cc: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
> > > Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> > > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c |    6 ------
> > >  drivers/dma/mv_xor.c         |   25 +------------------------
> > >  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Please take a look at the email from lkml I just forwarded to you.  I
> > believe this solves your problem, but I don't have time to look closely
> > atm.
> 
> Unhelpful.  Can the rest of us see this email as well please?

Sorry about that, the thread I was referring to on lkml was here:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1516018

And the specific email I was referring to is here (second version of
Bartlomiej's patch which addresses what Sebastian was attempting to fix):

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1517735

thx,

Jason.



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