Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 5 authors, 2021-12-13

Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] dmaengine: kill off dma_slave_config->slave_id

From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-11-22 23:01:53
Also in: alsa-devel, dmaengine, dri-devel, linux-arm-kernel, linux-arm-msm, linux-mmc, linux-spi, linux-staging, linux-tegra, lkml

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:21:52PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I recently came across some new uses of the 'slave_id' field that
I had (almost) removed a few years ago. There are no legitimate
uses of this field in the kernel, only a few stale references and
two drivers that abuse the field as a side-channel between the
dmaengine driver and its client.
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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