Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 01:34:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The mainline replacement for ashmem is memfd, so remove the legacy
> code from drivers/staging/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

While I know Android devices somehow still rely on this (as many
userspace programs directly accessed the ashmem device), I agree, it's
time to drop this for good.  If Android really needs this for future
devices, they can revert it and maintain it on their own.

I'll go queue this up now, thanks.

greg k-h