Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?

From	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?
Date	2015-07-09 13:40 +0200
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On Thu 2015-07-09 10:39:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Apparently, new tools are needed in the community, as normal review
> > comments did not stop drivers/android/binder.c merge.
> >
> > For example binder_transaction does not exactly look like a kernel
> > code, "TODO: fput" does not really invoke confidence, and ammount of
> > BUG_ON()s is quite amazing...
> 
> Amazingly, checkpatch (without --strict) only complains about long lines.

Well, checkpatch only tells half of storry.

Anyway worst problem is that there's no documentation of kernel<->user
interface binder provides, making understanding it hard/impossible.

Closest to documentation pointer is:

 * Based on, but no longer compatible with, the original
 * OpenBinder.org binder driver interface, which is:
  
									Pavel

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Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-07-09 10:50 +0200
  Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2015-07-09 13:40 +0200

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