From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
"Linux API" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
"Santosh Shilimkar" <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>,
"John Stultz" <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
"Rebecca Schultz Zavin" <rebecca@android.com>,
"Christoffer Dall" <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
"Anup Patel" <anup.patel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:14:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141016231457.GB13592@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkiPg8G13XZXG6CiaBFZ1yqY2J7_OAppDOGweuNpRaojuA@mail.gmail.com>
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
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> > 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 12:47 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-16 14:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-10-16 23:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-10-20 12:45 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-21 10:01 ` Pavel Machek
2014-10-16 17:09 ` John Stultz
2014-10-16 23:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-17 3:25 ` John Stultz
2014-10-17 8:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-18 21:36 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-10-19 22:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-21 10:36 ` Pavel Machek
2014-10-21 14:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-10-21 20:05 ` Pavel Machek
2014-10-17 9:26 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-19 22:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-20 9:20 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-20 23:32 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2014-10-22 3:10 ` Rom Lemarchand
2014-10-22 3:16 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-24 5:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-17 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-19 22:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-21 10:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-20 17:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
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