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 Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A47C433EF for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:23:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 7C1608D0002; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:23:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 74AA68D0001; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:23:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 5EA778D0002; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:23:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0173.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.173]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7FB8D0001 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:23:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin20.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C534718233542 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:23:02 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 79246686204.20.7A3F06A Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by imf02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E0080012 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A0FD615F1; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:23:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D6F9C340E8; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:23:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1647350580; bh=Ei/Y23MgvmDfhjLJWJarlbjup/SwfjWeC1vxGCGrhQA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=oozIfQgoOJ3cXif9OfRhQDUDA7kcPniBGHrFWFvtVy7uqQAgptLcEDtsBoLYm4hzI Z0qCncThtvwWhxz1V4+FTjTt10D5qgHirQfDiM9XXWhMIIBMWr96HcQG+e4X/PPN/x JVxy8zIuVm5SUL9gLeS9Q/ak7bs4Hahj3C9SgUuA= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:22:55 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Todd Kjos , Martijn Coenen , Joel Fernandes , Christian Brauner , Hridya Valsaraju , Suren Baghdasaryan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem Message-ID: References: <20220315123457.2354812-1-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220315123457.2354812-1-hch@lst.de> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 66E0080012 X-Rspam-User: Authentication-Results: imf02.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.s=korg header.b=oozIfQgo; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org; spf=pass (imf02.hostedemail.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 139.178.84.217 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org X-Stat-Signature: twkbr6mmqre67shq314sya873zomo9ib X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-HE-Tag: 1647350582-862597 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: 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 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