Re: [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add Hridya and myself into Android driver maintainers list

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu Jul 09 2020 - 09:09:30 EST


On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:18 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > And I thought we were deleting ashmem soon?
>
> This seems harder than initially thought. The Android userspace is
> intertwined with ashmem in various ways (security policies, apps etc).
> There were various concerns with old apps using /dev/ashmem directly
> without going through library layers and that such apps could not be
> upgraded. Various approaches were tried to work around this by
> different folks to varying degrees of effect. Also, I am no longer
> with the Android team at Google, but I continue to work with them
> upstream.
>
> Fwiw, I will continue reviewing this and other Android code from my
> side. Thanks.

Same.