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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, "Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Riley Andrews" <riandrews@android.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"John Stultz" <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"Martijn Coenen" <maco@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:33:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170918163322.GA25464@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170918162303.GA27188@infradead.org>

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:23:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:53:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > So, should we revert that?
> > 
> > I don't really know what to suggest here, sorry...
> 
> Keep it as is for now, and encourage people to fix it.  But we should
> reject any new patch that makes this worse or adds additional ioctls
> that don't follow our normal model.

That sounds reasonable to me, thanks.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-18 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-05  8:56 [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann
2017-09-18 14:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-18 15:35   ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-09-18 15:52     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 15:53     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-18 16:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 16:33         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-09-18 19:49         ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-09-20  9:08           ` Martijn Coenen
2017-09-20  9:58             ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-09-20 10:24               ` Martijn Coenen
2017-09-20 13:37                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-09-21  7:44                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-22  7:00                   ` Martijn Coenen
2017-09-22  9:12                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-09-22 12:46                       ` Martijn Coenen

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