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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:47:49 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
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	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: RFE: Make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 02:11:24PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Programs like Waydroid allows people to run Android in a Linux container
> but it needs ANDROID_BINDER_IPC to do that.
> It would be really helpful if ANDROID_BINDER_IPC could be dynamically
> loaded when someone wants to use Waydroid (and unload when no longer
> needed). But currently ANDROID_BINDER_IPC is a 'bool' so either you have
> it at all times or you will never have it.
> 
> So hereby the request to make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate so people that
> want to use it can load it when needed.
> 
> Debian has a patch to make it tristate since 2018, but it would be so
> much more useful to have it tristate upstream.

Please submit a patch to do so!