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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 12:23:11 EST


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.