I really don't know much about the telephony stack. I also doubt just changing the IPC mechanism is a magic solution -- very likely the RIL is designed to have one client. If you don't design for multiple clients up-front, adding support for that in the future generally involves a fair amount of rework.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:39 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > Are there other reasons as well? My understanding of Binder service in > Android is that it is a Service User and Service Provider model, that > means for two way communication(specially from Service Provider to > Service Users, in case of asynchronous notifications, callbacks etc, > the Service User also has to start a service for receving these > events,etc).I am just wondering about the possibility of two way > communication between processes using Binder, can you comment on that? > > Regards, > Ashutosh > > > On Mar 17, 7:29 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Basically because that is how it was implemented. *shrug* And it was > > written long before there was any Binder IPC facility. > > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Videoguy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > The communication between GSM stack and RIL daemon is done using Local > > > unix socket instead of Binder ipc. > > > > > Why was it done like that? > > > Are there any exceptions to when one can use Binder based ipc? > > > > > Thanks > > > Videoguy > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
