Re: [PATCH 4.19 36/54] tee: add tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 12 2021 - 06:56:43 EST
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 08:34:27AM -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> On 2021-08-11 09:24:34, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > commit dc7019b7d0e188d4093b34bd0747ed0d668c63bf upstream.
> > >
> > > Adds a new function tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf() to allocate shared memory
> > > from a kernel driver. This function can later be made more lightweight
> > > by unnecessary dma-buf export.
> >
> > 5.10 contains follow-up patches actually using the export, but 4.19
> > does not. I believe it should be dropped from 4.19.
>
> That's correct. Those follow-up patches that made use of this function
> were only needed back to 5.4.
Now dropped, thanks.
greg k-h