Re: [PATCH v9 05/11] crypto: qce - Remove unused ignore_buf
From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Fri Nov 28 2025 - 07:01:59 EST
On 11/28/25 12:44 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It's unclear what the purpose of this field is. It has been here since
> the initial commit but without any explanation. The driver works fine
> without it. We still keep allocating more space in the result buffer, we
> just don't need to store its address. While at it: move the
> QCE_IGNORE_BUF_SZ definition into dma.c as it's not used outside of this
> compilation unit.
It's apparently used downstream, at a glance to work around some oddities
https://github.com/cupid-development/android_kernel_xiaomi_sm8450/blob/lineage-22.2/drivers/crypto/msm/qce50.c
Konrad