Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751422AbaJQJnb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:43:31 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:37475 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231AbaJQJna (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:43:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:43:29 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Santosh Shilimkar , John Stultz , Arve Hj?nnev?g , 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: <20141017094329.GB18015@infradead.org> References: <20141016124741.GA3832@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141016124741.GA3832@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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 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. -- 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/