Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753086AbaJPXQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:16:04 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49606 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753048AbaJPXQB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:16:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:14:57 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: lkml , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Linux API , Santosh Shilimkar , John Stultz , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Sumit Semwal , Rebecca Schultz Zavin , Christoffer Dall , Anup Patel Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel Message-ID: <20141016231457.GB13592@kroah.com> References: <20141016124741.GA3832@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:18:02PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:47 PM, 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. > > Where does one find the canonical documentation of the user-space API? There really is only one "canonical" thing, and that is in the libbinder code in the Android userspace repository. And it's not really "documentation" so much as, "a C file that interacts with the ioctls in the binder kernel code" :( Think of this as just a random character driver with some funny ioctls that will never get really documented as there is only one user of it. sorry, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/