linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the Android logger driver

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:28:29 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rom Lemarchand <romlem@...gle.com>,
	Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...gle.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the Android logger driver

On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 12:07 -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> With the relase of Lollipop, Android no longer
> requires the logger driver.
> 
> There are three patches which the android dev's
> still need before they drop logger on all their
> devices:
> 
> [PATCH v4 1/5] pstores: use scnprintf
> [PATCH v2 2/5] pstore: remove superfluous memory size check
> [PATCH 3/5] pstore: handle zero-sized prz in series
> [PATCH v4 4/5] pstore: add pmsg
> [PATCH 5/5] pstore: selinux: add security in-core xattr support for pstore and debugfs
> 
> But these seem to have been acked and are hopefully
> queued for upstream.
> 
> So this patch removes the logger driver from staging.
> 
> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@...gle.com>,
> Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...gle.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/Kconfig  |  17 -

Please include the change that would add
   drivers/staging/android/Makefile |   1 -

>  drivers/staging/android/logger.c | 807 ---------------------------------------
>  drivers/staging/android/logger.h |  89 -----
>  3 files changed, 913 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/logger.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/logger.h

That is also delete this line:
    obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_LOGGER)           += logger.o

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

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