[PATCH] dmaengine: remove DMA_MEMCPY_SG once again

Michal Simek michal.simek at amd.com
Wed Jun 22 08:24:35 PDT 2022



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 at amd.com>

Thanks,
Michal



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