From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755357AbdIRPwL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:52:11 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:52355 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755249AbdIRPwK (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:52:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:52:06 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Riley Andrews , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Todd Kjos , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz , Martijn Coenen Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Message-ID: <20170918155206.GD16672@infradead.org> References: <20170905085640.1566593-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20170918140244.GB21714@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:35:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Probably not on a native Android device or even a Chromebook that > ships a binder user space together with a kernel, but what about > people using "anbox" or similar projects that allow you to run > Android apps in a container? > > It seems like a legitimate use case of the binder modules, but > now there is a kernel Kconfig option that has to match a user > space binary. Agreed. It's also against our general policy for userspace interfaces.