Re: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems: add binderfs
From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu Jan 10 2019 - 18:56:47 EST
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 04:47:03PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:13:09 +0100
> Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This documents the Android binderfs filesystem used to dynamically add and
> > remove binder devices that are private to each instance.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Seems like a worthwhile addition overall. I know nothing about binderfs,
> so can't speak to the accuracy, of course. I do have a couple of
> metacomments, though:
>
> - Please consider doing this in RST and tying it into our documentation
> tree. It's *almost* RST now, so the effort required will be almost
> zero.
Oh sure. I simply didn't know. I was just going by the files under
Documentation/filesystems/. Is this a separate git tree? If so, where is
located? Or can I just place it as
Documentation/filesystems/binderfs.rst?
>
> - It should probably have an SPDX line at the top.
Yup, can add.
>
> - Is it worth putting the example program in the samples/ directory? Is
> it something that would ever make any sense to run in its current form?
Hm, I mean I can write a small binary that illustrates mounting and
allocating binder devices in binderfs.
Thanks!
Christian