Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 12:33:17 EST
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:23:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 05:53:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > So, should we revert that?
> >
> > I don't really know what to suggest here, sorry...
>
> Keep it as is for now, and encourage people to fix it. But we should
> reject any new patch that makes this worse or adds additional ioctls
> that don't follow our normal model.
That sounds reasonable to me, thanks.
greg k-h