On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:29 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 09:31:27AM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote: > > On 8/27/20 8:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > The ION android code has long been marked to be removed, now that we > > > dma-buf support merged into the real part of the kernel. > > > > > > It was thought that we could wait to remove the ion kernel at a later > > > time, but as the out-of-tree Android fork of the ion code has diverged > > > quite a bit, and any Android device using the ion interface uses that > > > forked version and not this in-tree version, the in-tree copy of the > > > code is abandonded and not used by anyone. > > > > > > Combine this abandoned codebase with the need to make changes to it in > > > order to keep the kernel building properly, which then causes merge > > > issues when merging those changes into the out-of-tree Android code, and > > > you end up with two different groups of people (the in-kernel-tree > > > developers, and the Android kernel developers) who are both annoyed at > > > the current situation. Because of this problem, just drop the in-kernel > > > copy of the ion code now, as it's not used, and is only causing problems > > > for everyone involved. > > > > > > Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Laura Abbott <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > We discussed this at the Android MC on Monday and the plan was to > > remove it after the next LTS release. > > As 5.10 will be the next LTS release, I have now merged it to my > "testing" branch to go into 5.11-rc1. Sounds great! Thanks so much for waiting a bit on this, I really appreciate it! -john _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
