Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Skip sync if not mapped

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 08:43:30PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:03 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:05:44AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 01:03:39PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > > > The dmabuf heaps have been in an official kernel now for all of three
> > > > weeks. So yea, we can "delete [ION] and see who even notices", but I
> > > > worry that may seem a bit like contempt for the folks doing the work
> > > > on transitioning over, which doesn't help getting them to participate
> > > > within the community.
> > >
> > > But they aren't participating in the community today as no one is
> > > touching the ion code.  So I fail to see how keeping a dead-end-version
> > > of ion in the kernel tree really affects anyone these days.
> >
> > So, any thoughts here?  What's the timeline for ion being able to be
> > removed that you are comfortable with?
> 
> Sorry for the slow reply.  So my earlier plan was to drop it after the next LTS?

Ok, fair enough, we can wait until January.

thanks,

greg k-h