Requirements to merge new heaps in the kernel

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Sumit,

I wanted to follow-up on the discussion we had at Plumbers with John and
T.J. about (among other things) adding new heaps to the kernel.

I'm still interested in merging a carve-out driver[1], since it seems to be
in every vendor BSP and got asked again last week.

I remember from our discussion that for new heap types to be merged, we
needed a kernel use-case. Looking back, I'm not entirely sure how one
can provide that given that heaps are essentially facilities for
user-space.

Am I misremembering or missing something? What are the requirements for
you to consider adding a new heap driver?

Thanks!
Maxime

1: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20240515-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v1-1-54cbbd049511@kernel.org/
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