Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752179AbdCCRpm (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:45:42 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-f178.google.com ([209.85.220.178]:33647 "EHLO mail-qk0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751797AbdCCRpi (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:45:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of staging To: Michal Hocko References: <1488491084-17252-1-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com> <20170303132949.GC31582@dhcp22.suse.cz> Cc: Sumit Semwal , Riley Andrews , arve@android.com, romlem@google.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Brian Starkey , Daniel Vetter , Mark Brown , Benjamin Gaignard , linux-mm@kvack.org From: Laura Abbott Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 09:37:55 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170303132949.GC31582@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1836 Lines: 41 On 03/03/2017 05:29 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 02-03-17 13:44:32, Laura Abbott wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There's been some recent discussions[1] about Ion-like frameworks. There's >> apparently interest in just keeping Ion since it works reasonablly well. >> This series does what should be the final clean ups for it to possibly be >> moved out of staging. >> >> This includes the following: >> - Some general clean up and removal of features that never got a lot of use >> as far as I can tell. >> - Fixing up the caching. This is the series I proposed back in December[2] >> but never heard any feedback on. It will certainly break existing >> applications that rely on the implicit caching. I'd rather make an effort >> to move to a model that isn't going directly against the establishement >> though. >> - Fixing up the platform support. The devicetree approach was never well >> recieved by DT maintainers. The proposal here is to think of Ion less as >> specifying requirements and more of a framework for exposing memory to >> userspace. >> - CMA allocations now happen without the need of a dummy device structure. >> This fixes a bunch of the reasons why I attempted to add devicetree >> support before. >> >> I've had problems getting feedback in the past so if I don't hear any major >> objections I'm going to send out with the RFC dropped to be picked up. >> The only reason there isn't a patch to come out of staging is to discuss any >> other changes to the ABI people might want. Once this comes out of staging, >> I really don't want to mess with the ABI. > > Could you recapitulate concerns preventing the code being merged > normally rather than through the staging tree and how they were > addressed? > Sorry, I'm really not understanding your question here, can you clarify? Thanks, Laura