Hi Geert, On Thu, 2024-05-02 at 09:03 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 3:58 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 11:12 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 22:02 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > dma_extend(), get_dma_info_by_name(), register_chan_caps(), and > > > > request_dma_bycap() are unused. Remove them, and all related code. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+rene...@glider.be> > > > > I assume we could re-add these again in case we need them, but it would > > > be good > > > if Yoshinori could comment on whether we should keep these functions or > > > not. > > > > I was wondering: Could there be any userland tools using these DMA > > functions? > > They cannot be called from userspace, as there is no API for that. > They can only be called from inside the kernel, or from a kernel module > (possibly out-of-tree).
OK, thanks for the confirmation. Then I think it's safe to remove them. I will apply both your series tonight and the rest of the patches except for the one that moves the paging_init() around as it turns out the current positioning is intentional. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
