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Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 07:50:08 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/33] powerpc/powernv: remove dead npu-dma code
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:34:02PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> On 10/10/2018 00:24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This code has been unused since it was merged and is in the way of
> > cleaning up the DMA code, thus remove it.
> > 
> > This effectively reverts commit 5d2aa710 ("powerpc/powernv: Add support
> > for Nvlink NPUs").
> 
> 
> This code is heavily used by the NVIDIA GPU driver.

Not by the that actually exists in the kernel tree, so it simply doesn't
matter.