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=-6.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,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 1874DC433DF for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 939452145D for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="M99FiJnE" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 939452145D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788FA6E0F3; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68FEF6E0F3 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:29:14 +0000 (UTC) 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 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d8de519-65b3-123b-8ace-e820982884e0@labbott.name> X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Christoph Hellwig , kernel-team@android.com, Todd Kjos , Martijn Coenen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= , linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Joel Fernandes , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Suren Baghdasaryan , Hridya Valsaraju , Shuah Khan , Christian Brauner Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" 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 Hj=F8nnev=E5g" > > Cc: "Christian K=F6nig" > > 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 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel