Re: [PATCH 13/14] staging: binder: Support concurrent 32 bit and 64 bit processes.

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 18 2014 - 14:09:26 EST


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:58:41PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add binder_size_t and binder_uintptr_t that is used instead of size_t and
> void __user * in the user-space interface.
>
> Use 64 bit pointers on all systems unless CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_32BIT
> is set (which enables the old protocol on 32 bit systems).
>
> Change BINDER_CURRENT_PROTOCOL_VERSION to 8 if
> CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_32BIT is not set.
>
> Add compat ioctl.
>
> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [jstultz: Merged with upstream type changes. Tweaked commit message.
> Various whitespace fixes and longer Kconfig description for checkpatch]
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ok, I see that Arve has signed off on this, why the Cc: above to confuse
me? :)

Anyway, what about the ARM patches that this was based on? And why the
previous patch that breaks things on its own?

totally confused...

greg k-h
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