On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:40:41AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> No one gave a thing about android in upstream, so Greg KH just dumped it
> all into staging/android/. We've discussed ION a bunch of times, recorded
> anything we'd like to fix in staging/android/TODO, and Laura's patch
> series here addresses a big chunk of that.

> This is pretty much the same approach we (gpu folks) used to de-stage the
> syncpt stuff.

Well, there's also the fact that quite a few people have issues with the
design (like Laurent).  It seems like a lot of them have either got more
comfortable with it over time, or at least not managed to come up with
any better ideas in the meantime.