linux-kernel - Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:36:41 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	Havoc Pennington <havoc.pennington@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
Subject: Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?

On Thu 2015-07-09 10:39:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....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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