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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 12:34:55 EST


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.