Re: RFE: Make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Aug 16 2025 - 08:48:05 EST
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!