Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 11:52:15 EST


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:35:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Probably not on a native Android device or even a Chromebook that
> ships a binder user space together with a kernel, but what about
> people using "anbox" or similar projects that allow you to run
> Android apps in a container?
>
> It seems like a legitimate use case of the binder modules, but
> now there is a kernel Kconfig option that has to match a user
> space binary.

Agreed. It's also against our general policy for userspace interfaces.