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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:29:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> That is a "Android 7-based" system?  That's old, how are they supporting
> that anymore with the security stuff that has happened since then?
> 
> Anyway, if this were to come back, I need a maintainer who agrees to
> maintain it and fix and support it.  Are you able to do that?  If so, I
> think it would probably be easier to fix up anbox to use memfd instead,
> is anyone doing that (I couldn't figure that out from the github
> issue...)

I'm very much against this.  ashmem is a mess and we should not maintain
it for some kind of retro computing group.