Re: [PATCH] staging: remove ashmem

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jun 16 2022 - 02:31:18 EST


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.