On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 07:32:27AM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 7/3/19 5:50 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:37 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:48:41PM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote: > > > > Remove file ion_carveout_heap.c as its functions and definitions are not > > > > used anywhere. > > > > Issue found with Coccinelle. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig | 9 -- > > > > drivers/staging/android/ion/Makefile | 1 - > > > > .../staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c | 133 ------------------ > > > > > > I keep trying to do this, but others point out that the ion code is > > > "going to be fixed up soon" and that people rely on this interface now. > > > Well, "code outside of the kernel tree" relies on this, which is not ok, > > > but the "soon" people keep insisting on it... > > > > > > Odds are I should just delete all of ION, as there hasn't been any > > > forward progress on it in a long time. > > > > > > Hopefully that wakes some people up... > > > > John Stultz has done a steady stream on ion destaging patch series > > past few months, und the heading of "DMA-BUF Heaps", targeting > > drivers/dma-buf. I'm not following the details, and it seems a bit a > > crawl, but there's definitely work going on ... Just probably not > > in-place in staging I think. > > -Daniel > > > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-June/223705.html > > It is making slow and steady progress. Part of this is trying to > make sure we actually get this right before moving anything > out of staging. > > That said, I think we're at the point where nobody wants the > carveout and chunk heaps so I'd actually be okay with removing > those files. Just to be explicit: > > Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Hey, if you agree to delete these, I'll not object at all! thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
