From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:43:29 -0700 Message-ID: <20141017094329.GB18015@infradead.org> References: <20141016124741.GA3832@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141016124741.GA3832@kroah.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Anup Patel , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arve Hj?nnev?g , Santosh Shilimkar , Rebecca Schultz Zavin , John Stultz , Sumit Semwal , Christoffer Dall List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so > might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as there's no > real work that needs to be done to the existing code. NAK. It's complete rubbish and does things to the FD code that it really shouldn't. Android needs to completely redo the interface, and there's been absolutely no work towards that. This is exactly the sort of attitude I feared about when you started the whole staging concepts, and it sounds like a good reason to disband staging entirely, given that it's been mostly useless except for boasting peoples commit statistics.