Re: [PATCHv3 00/16] vme DMA and user space driver improvements

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 05:04:28AM +0300, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:09:19PM +0300, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote:
> >> Also, there are some patches that IMO don't need any special VME
> >> subsystem expertise, namely:
> >>   Documentation: mention vme_master_mmap() in VME API
> >>   vme: ca91cx42: return error code on DMA error
> >>   staging: vme_user: remove unused counters
> >>   staging: vme_user: remove forward declarations
> >>   staging: vme_user: remove open/release
> >>   staging: vme_user: remove buf_unalloc helper
> >>   vme: tsi148: depend on HAS_DMA for Kconfig
> >
> > I've taken all of these except patches 12, 13, 14 and 16.
> >
> I thought 12 was the most harmless out of the whole set. Am I wrong?

You added a new userspace api, that someone else is going to have to
maintain, that's not "harmless" at all.
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