From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 965922FD7DF for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755365563; cv=none; b=Ec8Aml6L0WKMPpsspAbnj7YAPI4P77TBiWRRat95AFqIxbakMb+OVamKBeSBwwrL80p8hlBxYj2HHcimjRapXdtIWn1uKKNQKsmT7qrxCMEfTe2c5C4Tlizabg5EQdAO0jq5DhH2rxX+NBHc6ocDGmo8aNqXr/70BFEaO+G5itw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755365563; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WDLPIRj1QKojvvF3Yx7Sb4HKzzmXmbCiB0ikIbNkwv4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=SZpv0Tn012ltdmsFvqOFAkEimapjG7D94iKIrEGHa0kKwClfrAD7BgTHauN5dn89JtKtmu7nLhFrIf6loxq6/IfGwwvs2BZU+46TzNyQUzKGubExYmDbhjIBUujN+E3ISXAZs0I7KyVVNqoh3vV77jtUNdsepqv53n+T7DUupic= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=b/JcHSlp; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="b/JcHSlp" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77414C4CEEF; Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:32:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1755365562; bh=WDLPIRj1QKojvvF3Yx7Sb4HKzzmXmbCiB0ikIbNkwv4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=b/JcHSlpo2bxS6qB2Rj4KR7Ih5kDHdFEO2CbLtZVE0i3DdamAofkI3PvSXjew8WZp dQBLuVTgX33Br7exn7slqLqWs6IIpVbu2u/0J0hEpjP6CZ9+6i+51Uw+y1VAbHY1u1 K369Li1uA+FmeDepZGjXHBOHgThECmgao9gw3w0Q= Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:32:38 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Diederik de Haas Cc: Todd Kjos , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Todd Kjos , Martijn Coenen , Joel Fernandes , Christian Brauner , Carlos Llamas , Suren Baghdasaryan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFE: Make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate Message-ID: <2025081612-unpledged-agnostic-7fb3@gregkh> References: <2025081642-viewpoint-exemption-006f@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 07:26:16PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Sat Aug 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM CEST, Todd Kjos wrote: > > This is not feasible since binder relies on many kernel internal functions > > and data that cannot be exported for loadable module. Patches for this have > > been attempted in the past, but soundly rejected. You can see some of that > > discussion at > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180730143710.14413-1-christian@brauner.io/. > > That seems to be the upstreaming attempt (or at least trying to start a > discussion about it) of the initial patch. > A lot could've happened in these 7 years, but apparently not enough for > a different outcome. Good to know, thanks :-) > > FWIW these are the current ones: > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/6.16.1-1_exp1/debian/patches/debian/export-symbols-needed-by-binder.patch Ah, that makes more sense, that patch is not going to be accepted upsteam sorry. greg k-h