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

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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

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[PATCH 0/3] ANDROID: binder: reconcile with android common tree Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-07-28 14:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] ANDROID: binder: add padding to binder_fd_array_object. Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-07-28 14:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] ANDROID: binder: reconcile with android common tree Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-07-29 01:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] ANDROID: binder: reconcile with android common tree Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-07-31 09:00 +0200

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