From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757455Ab2INQyV (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:54:21 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:45593 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757325Ab2INQyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:54:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:53:32 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/31] arm64: Cache maintenance routines Message-ID: <20120914165331.GA2927@arm.com> References: <1347035226-18649-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1347035226-18649-10-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201209071928.09999.arnd@arndb.de> <20120910164815.GB8238@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:29:21PM +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:28:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Friday 07 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > + > > > > +/* > > > > + * dmac_inv_range(start,end) > > > > > > all of these appear to be unused now. Can you remove them? > > > > They aren't currently used but I expect some partners to make use of > > them on their private development. I could drop them from the upstream > > branch temporarily. > > Depends. If your expectation from those partners is a real probability > then it is best to keep a skeleton in place for them to use, otherwise > they might get ... creative. If this is just wild speculation then you > should drop it. I dropped them for now since there is no API using those functions. But I have a feeling they will be needed at some point (so I'll keep the patches around). -- Catalin