staging: ion: remove from the tree

The ION android code has long been marked to be removed, now that we
dma-buf support merged into the real part of the kernel.

It was thought that we could wait to remove the ion kernel at a later
time, but as the out-of-tree Android fork of the ion code has diverged
quite a bit, and any Android device using the ion interface uses that
forked version and not this in-tree version, the in-tree copy of the
code is abandonded and not used by anyone.

Combine this abandoned codebase with the need to make changes to it in
order to keep the kernel building properly, which then causes merge
issues when merging those changes into the out-of-tree Android code, and
you end up with two different groups of people (the in-kernel-tree
developers, and the Android kernel developers) who are both annoyed at
the current situation.  Because of this problem, just drop the in-kernel
copy of the ion code now, as it's not used, and is only causing problems
for everyone involved.

Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>
Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827123627.538189-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig
deleted file mode 100644
index 989fe84a9f9d..000000000000
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-menuconfig ION
-	bool "Ion Memory Manager"
-	depends on HAS_DMA && MMU
-	select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
-	select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
-	help
-	  Choose this option to enable the ION Memory Manager,
-	  used by Android to efficiently allocate buffers
-	  from userspace that can be shared between drivers.
-	  If you're not using Android its probably safe to
-	  say N here.
-
-config ION_SYSTEM_HEAP
-	bool "Ion system heap"
-	depends on ION
-	help
-	  Choose this option to enable the Ion system heap. The system heap
-	  is backed by pages from the buddy allocator. If in doubt, say Y.
-
-config ION_CMA_HEAP
-	bool "Ion CMA heap support"
-	depends on ION && DMA_CMA
-	help
-	  Choose this option to enable CMA heaps with Ion. This heap is backed
-	  by the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA). If your system has these
-	  regions, you should say Y here.