linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] file: export functions for binder module

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Message-ID: <20180730163452.GE27761@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:34:52 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arve@...roid.com, tkjos@...roid.com,
        maco@...roid.com, rlove@...gle.com, ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] file: export functions for binder module

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:37:06PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> We currently plan on turning the Android binder and ashmem driver into a
> module. We have seen more and more requests by users to be able to use
> the binder and ashmem features without wanting to convince each distro
> to enable it by default in their kernel. Debian already started to carry
> patches for turning them into modules.

Yikes.  I really wish Debian would stick more to upstream rather than
picking random crap like this up.