Re: [PATCH 0/3] ANDROID: binder: reconcile with android common tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 19:48:40 EST


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 01:56:05PM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> When comparing the android common kernel branch with
> upstream, I found several differences.
>
> The "add padding" patch has long been applied in common,
> and shipping versions of Android userspace depends on this
> particular alignment; so while it does change UAPI, we
> have never shipped a userspace that used the old UAPI,
> so this change does not break anything.
>
> The "add hwbinder,vndbinder" patch changes the default
> binder device nodes to match what the latest Android
> userspace (O) requires.
>
> Finally, the recent patch-stack for fine-grained locking
> contained a patch that for some reason was incomplete;
> "fix proc->tsk check" addresses this particular problem.

Ok, do some of these need to go to Linus now for 4.13-final and to the
stable trees to match up with the 3 that are already proposed for the
stable trees? If so, which ones?

thanks,

greg k-h