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

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 13:00:17 EST


On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 05:37:53PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:28:38PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 05:12:23PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> There's plenty of other userspaces that have the same requirements for
> allocation for applications like video capture, I believe some of them
> have actually moved to ION already and they're certainly where some of
> the requirements here are coming from.

Then the Kconfig option should start to describe some of this :)