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

From Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning
Date 2017-09-18 18:40 +0200
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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

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Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-18 16:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-09-18 17:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-18 18:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-18 18:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-18 18:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-09-18 21:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-09-20 11:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-09-20 12:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-09-20 12:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-09-20 15:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-21 09:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-09-22 09:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-09-22 11:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com> - 2017-09-22 14:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] android: binder: fix type mismatch warning Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-18 18:00 +0200

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