Re: RFE: Make ANDROID_BINDER_IPC tristate

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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@xxxxxxxxxx/.
> 
> 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