Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758800AbZFTSvr (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:51:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757691AbZFTSsw (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:48:52 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57500 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759146AbZFTSsv (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:48:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:48:46 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Walker Cc: Arve Hj?nnev?g , Brian Swetland , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hackbod@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: binder: Remove some funny && usage Message-ID: <20090620184846.GA24550@infradead.org> References: <1245249469.5982.251.camel@desktop> <4A390B9A.40806@goop.org> <1245254936.5982.261.camel@desktop> <4A391A54.7000109@goop.org> <1245274308.5982.268.camel@desktop> <1245451983.32124.25.camel@desktop> <1245458940.32124.45.camel@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245458940.32124.45.camel@desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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 Content-Length: 881 Lines: 17 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:49:00PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Most of these questions related to the fact that I don't think an > interface like this just slips into the kernel as a driver. Since it's > IPC, it's totally generic, and it's not part of a standard (i.e. POSIX), > we need to have some better and more specific information about it (or > atleast I do). It's in the crap^H^H^H^Hstaging tree and might for all practivcal purposes not exist. The binders interface as implemented currently with it's fdtable munging and messing around with the user virtual address space has exactly zero chance to go properly upstream. -- 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/