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 > > thanks, > > greg k-h > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
