Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:18:02PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now.  No matter
> > what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so
> > might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as there's no
> > real work that needs to be done to the existing code.
> 
> Where does one find the canonical documentation of the user-space API?

There really is only one "canonical" thing, and that is in the libbinder
code in the Android userspace repository.  And it's not really
"documentation" so much as, "a C file that interacts with the ioctls in
the binder kernel code" :(

Think of this as just a random character driver with some funny ioctls
that will never get really documented as there is only one user of it.

sorry,

greg k-h
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