Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 12:28:39 EST


On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 05:12:23PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:08:22PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 02:32:17PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > > call you added? What did you do to test this out? Where are the AOSP
> > > > patches to use this? Happen to have a VTS test for it?
>
> > > Do we need to convert Android for this to be accepted? The single
> > > device is being kept around for it and the use case was from non-Android
> > > users wasn't it?
>
> > So we are just going to add kernel features with no userspace users of
> > it at all? Why would we do that? How was it even tested?
>
> I think it's reasonable to ask for userspace, I'm querying why it needs
> to specifically be Android.

Does anyone other than Android use this interface?