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    staging: ion: remove from the tree · e722a295
    Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
    The ION android code has long been marked to be removed, now that we
    dma-buf support merged into the real part of the kernel.
    
    It was thought that we could wait to remove the ion kernel at a later
    time, but as the out-of-tree Android fork of the ion code has diverged
    quite a bit, and any Android device using the ion interface uses that
    forked version and not this in-tree version, the in-tree copy of the
    code is abandonded and not used by anyone.
    
    Combine this abandoned codebase with the need to make changes to it in
    order to keep the kernel building properly, which then causes merge
    issues when merging those changes into the out-of-tree Android code, and
    you end up with two different groups of people (the in-kernel-tree
    developers, and the Android kernel developers) who are both annoyed at
    the current situation.  Because of this problem, just drop the in-kernel
    copy of the ion code now, as it's not used, and is only causing problems
    for everyone involved.
    
    Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
    Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
    Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
    Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
    Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
    Cc: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>
    Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
    Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
    Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
    Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
    Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827123627.538189-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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