From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753210AbdK1R2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:28:35 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33252 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751495AbdK1R2e (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:28:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:28:38 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Mark Brown Cc: Benjamin Gaignard , labbott@redhat.com, sumit.semwal@linaro.org, arve@android.com, riandrews@android.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap Message-ID: <20171128172838.GA31113@kroah.com> References: <1509983985-20950-1-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <1509983985-20950-3-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <20171128133217.GA29995@kroah.com> <20171128162620.levmpcgaixilwq3n@sirena.org.uk> <20171128170822.GA22359@kroah.com> <20171128171223.qnd7z7h2lnxy5lkd@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171128171223.qnd7z7h2lnxy5lkd@sirena.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?