Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.20 36/81] binder: fix CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 10:24:15 EST


On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:07:28AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 793c8232937610ae00bc174b87d7fc324346eaea ]
>
> Several users have tried to only rely on binderfs to provide binder devices
> and set CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES="" empty. This is a great use-case of
> binderfs and one that was always intended to work. However, this is
> currently not possible since setting CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES="" emtpy
> will simply panic the kernel:

There is no binderfs on 4.20, so this patch is not needed on anything
older than 5.0.

Please drop it from your queues.

thanks,

greg k-h