From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5D8C433E7 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018262084C for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602836956; bh=gfZRHfiV80AkMKP13njGzfHmEMvVJhxSpHJPlsKp1c0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=2rJ3cQHdQOoCXGN7j64XYf+iTZT5vvYE0n1Rjgv7gZGYf1JeX15kv69JF2dVX7ATa aA9OEMoTSRRbns62o/zOAdVMe+JxWwoMbhNXBUbvZisSLYRgxGMF6FcylnbYWjO6/g uETdgg636ILmoq6DLxOi/iIaiXlVRuC+R5p2NTPA= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2394604AbgJPI3P (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 04:29:15 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52184 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2391299AbgJPI3O (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 04:29:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-74-64.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.74.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 557D720848; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602836954; bh=gfZRHfiV80AkMKP13njGzfHmEMvVJhxSpHJPlsKp1c0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=M99FiJnEjdsc3CNdrjTG2ze4YE+/WGGIya7iMnIJ2VJM/C48P8VP8gGVqGmjMQLgI 7qJdGyKvgKAmGLUAhXsyRdkeTUX4EybvdBq0WNvZQFpQsEexH8YzwD7Ha5pbTjcA5s /JpgKN2bLBqm0vwfX6OownE57unxVBFlCa2ng6Rc= Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:29:45 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Laura Abbott Cc: sumit.semwal@linaro.org, john.stultz@linaro.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Shuah Khan , Todd Kjos , Martijn Coenen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Suren Baghdasaryan , Christoph Hellwig , Joel Fernandes , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Hridya Valsaraju , kernel-team@android.com, Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= , Christian Brauner Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ion: remove from the tree Message-ID: <20201016082945.GA1722359@kroah.com> References: <20200827123627.538189-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <3d8de519-65b3-123b-8ace-e820982884e0@labbott.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3d8de519-65b3-123b-8ace-e820982884e0@labbott.name> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" > > Cc: "Christian König" > > Cc: Christian Brauner > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig > > Cc: Hridya Valsaraju > > Cc: Joel Fernandes > > Cc: John Stultz > > Cc: Laura Abbott > > Cc: Martijn Coenen > > Cc: Shuah Khan > > Cc: Sumit Semwal > > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan > > Cc: Todd Kjos > > Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org > > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > 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. thanks, greg k-h