From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756117AbdIRQXH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:23:07 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:49411 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755988AbdIRQXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:23:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:23:03 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Riley Andrews , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Todd Kjos , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Stultz , Martijn Coenen Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Message-ID: <20170918162303.GA27188@infradead.org> References: <20170905085640.1566593-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20170918140244.GB21714@kroah.com> <20170918155347.GB19150@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170918155347.GB19150@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) 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 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.