On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:29 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: "Christian König" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> > > > Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Laura Abbott <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Martijn Coenen <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Sumit Semwal <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Todd Kjos <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > > > 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 [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
