Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: remove dead npu-dma code

2018-11-02 Thread Michael Ellerman
Alexey Kardashevskiy writes: > On 31/10/2018 00:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> This code has never been unused in the kernel since it was merged, and >> there has been no attempt that I could find to even submit users for >> it. Besides the general policy of not keep 1000+ lines of dead >> code,

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: remove dead npu-dma code

2018-10-31 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 31/10/2018 00:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This code has never been unused in the kernel since it was merged, and > there has been no attempt that I could find to even submit users for > it. Besides the general policy of not keep 1000+ lines of dead > code, it helps cleaning up the DMA cod

[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: remove dead npu-dma code

2018-10-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
This code has never been unused in the kernel since it was merged, and there has been no attempt that I could find to even submit users for it. Besides the general policy of not keep 1000+ lines of dead code, it helps cleaning up the DMA code and making powerpc user common infrastructure. This ef