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

[Jason Cooper]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  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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