[PATCH 2/4] dma-pool: Get rid of dma_in_atomic_pool()

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Jul 10 02:50:54 EDT 2020


On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 02:51:13PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> 
> > The function is only used once and can be simplified to a one-liner.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>
> 
> I'll leave this one to Christoph to decide on.  One thing I really liked 
> about hacking around in kernel/dma is the coding style, it really follows 
> "one function does one thing and does it well" even if there is only one 
> caller.  dma_in_atomic_pool() was an attempt to follow in those footsteps.

While I like the helper aswell, I don't see how it could work nicely
with the changes in patch 4.



More information about the linux-rpi-kernel mailing list