Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] staging: android: Remove BUG/BUG_ON from ion

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 03:17:03 EST


On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 08:52:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 07:47:29AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 06:27:04PM +0300, Tomer Samara wrote:
> > > Remove BUG/BUG_ON from androind/ion
> >
> > Please just remove ion. It has been rejected and we have developed
> > proper kernel subsystens to replace it. Don't waste your time on it.
>
> It is going to be removed at the end of this year. Why we keep it
> around until then, I really don't know, but John and Laura have this as
> the plan.

It keeps getting in the way of various projects and has no path
going upstream properly. Seems weird to keep this dead and not all
that great code around.