[PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Remove file ion_carveout_heap.c

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:37 AM Greg KH <gregkh at 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 at 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
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