Re: [PATCH] staging: android: uapi: drop definitions of removed ION_IOC_{FREE,SHARE} ioctls

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:17:05PM +0300, Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 04:33:57PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > On 05/30/2017 07:11 AM, Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy wrote:
> > > This problem was found by strace ioctl list generator.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 15c6098cfec5 ("staging: android: ion: Remove ion_handle and ion_client")
> 
> As this commit fixes a regression, please apply it to the tree which will
> be merged before 4.12 release, too.

What "regression" is there?  The fact that a staging driver has a few
spare ioctls floating around in a header file?  How is that bad?

thanks,

greg k-h