Re: [PATCH] staging, android: remove lowmemory killer from the tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 09 2017 - 07:48:38 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 11:00:07AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 09-03-17 10:30:28, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:15:13AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Greg, do you see any obstacle to have this merged. The discussion so far
> > > shown that a) vendors are not using the code as is b) there seems to be
> > > an agreement that something else than we have in the kernel is really
> > > needed.
> >
> > Well, some vendors are using the code as-is, just not Sony...
> >
> > I think the ideas that Tim wrote about is the best way forward for this.
> > I'd prefer to leave the code in the kernel until that solution is
> > integrated, as dropping support entirely isn't very nice.
> >
> > But, given that almost no Android system is running mainline at the
> > moment, I will queue this patch up for 4.12-rc1, which will give the
> > Google people a bit more of an incentive to get their solution
> > implemented and working and merged :)
> >
> > Sound reasonable?
>
> sounds good to me.

Oh nevermind, might as well commit it now to my -next branch. All now
deleted :)

greg k-h