Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 07:27:48AM +0200, Hans Müller wrote:
> It is not only Android itself that broke but also Anbox
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbox):
> https://github.com/anbox/anbox/issues/2042
> 
> I use that regularly on my system... I know there is Waydroid and I do use
> it sometimes but it is not a full replacement (especially since it makes the
> whole system slower over time and spams the tty).
> 
> Could you consider reverting that change until the Anbox people found a way
> which allows Anbox to not depend on ashmem anymore?

That is a "Android 7-based" system?  That's old, how are they supporting
that anymore with the security stuff that has happened since then?

Anyway, if this were to come back, I need a maintainer who agrees to
maintain it and fix and support it.  Are you able to do that?  If so, I
think it would probably be easier to fix up anbox to use memfd instead,
is anyone doing that (I couldn't figure that out from the github
issue...)

thanks,

greg k-h