From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
"Martijn Coenen" <maco@android.com>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
"Christian Brauner" <christian@brauner.io>,
"Hridya Valsaraju" <hridya@google.com>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:22:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjCTL/2ZJW8EWLHL@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220315123457.2354812-1-hch@lst.de>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 01:34:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The mainline replacement for ashmem is memfd, so remove the legacy
> code from drivers/staging/
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
While I know Android devices somehow still rely on this (as many
userspace programs directly accessed the ashmem device), I agree, it's
time to drop this for good. If Android really needs this for future
devices, they can revert it and maintain it on their own.
I'll go queue this up now, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-15 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-15 12:34 Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-15 13:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-06-16 5:27 ` Hans Müller
2022-06-16 6:29 ` Greg KH
2022-06-16 6:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-16 8:34 ` Greg KH
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