Re: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems: add binderfs

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Jan 11 2019 - 05:22:45 EST


On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 05:08:11PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:56:42 +0100
> Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > - Please consider doing this in RST and tying it into our documentation
> > > tree. It's *almost* RST now, so the effort required will be almost
> > > zero.
> >
> > Oh sure. I simply didn't know. I was just going by the files under
> > Documentation/filesystems/. Is this a separate git tree? If so, where is
> > located? Or can I just place it as
> > Documentation/filesystems/binderfs.rst?
>
> The latter - plus an entry in index.rst. Look at, say, path-lookup.rst in
> that directory now.

Good. Thanks!

>
> > > - Is it worth putting the example program in the samples/ directory? Is
> > > it something that would ever make any sense to run in its current form?
> >
> > Hm, I mean I can write a small binary that illustrates mounting and
> > allocating binder devices in binderfs.
>
> This was just a thought - I sure don't want to try to send you off on some
> sort of project if it won't be useful! :)

I mean it'll be useful and it's really not a lot of work to be honest.
It's just extending the program I put into the commit message for
binderfs itself. :)

Thanks!
Christian