Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap
From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 12:08:25 EST
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 02:32:17PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Where is the documentation for the new sysfs files and the new ioctl
>
> Didn't see any sysfs files in there?
New struct devices were created and registered. Why would that happen
if there was not a need for sysfs files? :)
> > call you added? What did you do to test this out? Where are the AOSP
> > patches to use this? Happen to have a VTS test for it?
>
> Do we need to convert Android for this to be accepted? The single
> device is being kept around for it and the use case was from non-Android
> users wasn't it?
So we are just going to add kernel features with no userspace users of
it at all? Why would we do that? How was it even tested?
greg k-h