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

[John Stultz]

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?

thanks
-john