Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:31:04AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:29:51AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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...)
> 
> I'm very much against this.  ashmem is a mess and we should not maintain
> it for some kind of retro computing group.

I totally agree, and was hinting that if someone actually had the skill
to maintain ashmem, they would know it is easier to just fix the
userspace code instead :)