linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/14] staging: android: ion: Declare helpers for carveout and chunk heaps

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:59:09 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] staging: android: ion: Declare helpers for
 carveout and chunk heaps

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:05:21PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> When enabled the helpers functions for creating carveout and chunk heaps
> should have declarations in the ION header.

Why?  No one calls these from what I can tell.

Which makes me believe we should just delete the
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c and
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c files as there are no
in-tree users?

Any objection to me doing that?

thanks,

greg k-h