From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Tomer Samara <tomersamara98@gmail.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>,
Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>,
Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@android.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>,
Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] staging: android: Remove BUG/BUG_ON from ion
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:16:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200827071654.GB25305@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200825065229.GA1319770@kroah.com>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 08:52:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 07:47:29AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 06:27:04PM +0300, Tomer Samara wrote:
> > > Remove BUG/BUG_ON from androind/ion
> >
> > Please just remove ion. It has been rejected and we have developed
> > proper kernel subsystens to replace it. Don't waste your time on it.
>
> It is going to be removed at the end of this year. Why we keep it
> around until then, I really don't know, but John and Laura have this as
> the plan.
It keeps getting in the way of various projects and has no path
going upstream properly. Seems weird to keep this dead and not all
that great code around.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-21 15:27 [PATCH v4 0/2] staging: android: Remove BUG/BUG_ON from ion Tomer Samara
2020-08-21 15:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] staging: android: Remove BUG_ON from ion_page_pool.c Tomer Samara
2020-08-24 11:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-08-21 15:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] staging: android: Remove BUG from ion_system_heap.c Tomer Samara
2020-08-21 16:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-08-22 9:34 ` Tomer Samara
2020-08-22 14:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-08-24 11:24 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-08-24 11:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-08-24 11:43 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-08-25 6:47 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] staging: android: Remove BUG/BUG_ON from ion Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-25 6:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-27 7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-27 12:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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