Re: [RFC PATCH 11/12] staging: android: ion: Make Ion heaps selectable

From: Laura Abbott
Date: Fri Mar 03 2017 - 14:42:48 EST


On 03/03/2017 02:33 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:44:43PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>
>> Currently, all heaps are compiled in all the time. In switching to
>> a better platform model, let's allow these to be compiled out for good
>> measure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm not the biggest fan of making everything Kconfig-selectable. And the
> #ifdef stuff doesn't look all that pretty. If we'd also use this
> opportunity to split each heap into their own file I think this patch here
> would be a lot more useful.
>
> Anyway, no real opinion from me on this, just an idea.
> -Daniel
>

My idea with the Kconfigs was that if platforms didn't want certain
heap types (e.g. chunk heap) they could just be turned off.
I do want to fully fix up the initialization better as well.

Thanks,
Laura