From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: driverdevel <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>, "Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>, dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" <linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org>, "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>, "Nishka Dasgupta" <nishkadg.linux@gmail.com>, joel@joelfernandes.org, maco@android.com, christian@brauner.io Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Remove file ion_carveout_heap.c Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:50:47 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAKMK7uFAaw3sL_A6gGOeot80fvukjZqprLptLER=riA1_p4zWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20190703083745.GB8996@kroah.com> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:37 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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@gmail.com> > > --- > > 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@lists.freedesktop.org > 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@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: driverdevel <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>, "Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>, dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" <linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org>, "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>, "Nishka Dasgupta" <nishkadg.linux@gmail.com>, joel@joelfernandes.org, maco@android.com, christian@brauner.io Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Remove file ion_carveout_heap.c Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:50:47 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAKMK7uFAaw3sL_A6gGOeot80fvukjZqprLptLER=riA1_p4zWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20190703083745.GB8996@kroah.com> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:37 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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@gmail.com> > > --- > > 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@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-03 9:50 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-07-03 8:18 [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Remove file ion_carveout_heap.c Nishka Dasgupta 2019-07-03 8:18 ` Nishka Dasgupta 2019-07-03 8:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: android: ion: Remove file ion_chunk_heap.c Nishka Dasgupta 2019-07-03 8:18 ` Nishka Dasgupta 2019-07-03 11:33 ` Laura Abbott 2019-07-03 11:33 ` Laura Abbott 2019-07-03 8:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Remove file ion_carveout_heap.c Greg KH 2019-07-03 8:37 ` Greg KH 2019-07-03 8:44 ` Nishka Dasgupta 2019-07-03 8:44 ` Nishka Dasgupta 2019-07-03 9:10 ` Greg KH 2019-07-03 9:10 ` Greg KH 2019-07-03 9:50 ` Daniel Vetter [this message] 2019-07-03 9:50 ` Daniel Vetter 2019-07-03 11:32 ` Laura Abbott 2019-07-03 11:32 ` Laura Abbott 2019-07-03 16:24 ` Greg KH 2019-07-03 16:24 ` Greg KH 2019-07-03 19:36 ` John Stultz 2019-07-03 19:36 ` John Stultz
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