Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-23 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:10:32PM -0700, Rom Lemarchand wrote: > We would also like to make kernel-t...@android.com the maintainer of > the whole android directory. Mailing lists can't be a maintainer, but you could add it as a private list in the MAINTAINERS file. regards, dan carpenter -- To

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 20:10 -0700, Rom Lemarchand wrote: > On the topic of maintainers for binder: both Arve Hjønnevåg > (a...@android.com) and Riley Andrews (riandr...@android.com) have > volunteered to be co-maintainers with Greg. > > We would also like to make kernel-t...@android.com the mainta

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Rom Lemarchand
On the topic of maintainers for binder: both Arve Hjønnevåg (a...@android.com) and Riley Andrews (riandr...@android.com) have volunteered to be co-maintainers with Greg. We would also like to make kernel-t...@android.com the maintainer of the whole android directory. -- To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2014-10-21 16:12:24, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2014 12:36:22 Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Fri 2014-10-17 01:12:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:09:04AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > >

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 21 October 2014 12:36:22 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Fri 2014-10-17 01:12:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:09:04AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > wrote: > > > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > Are the

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:04:50AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > There is now work to resolve the interface, it requires someone who has > the rights to push to Android userspace. But that is going to be a > "total rewrite", and until then, this code needs to be used, no matter > how much we

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2014-10-17 01:12:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:09:04AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > wrote: > > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Are the Android guys comfortable with the ABI stability rules they'll > > now

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-21 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2014-10-17 01:14:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:18:02PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > wrote: > > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many yea

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-20 Thread Arve Hjønnevåg
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:05:47AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:26:01PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> > The code isn't very beautiful and there are lots of details wrong like >> > the error codes. >> >> Real

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 16 October 2014 14:47:41 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so > might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-20 Thread Dan Carpenter
Having documentation would help reviewers. Here is some documentation I found online. http://www.phonesdevelopers.com/1793504/ But it seems like it was originally written in another language and auto translated to English. I don't see who is going to maintain this, if no one has time to even docu

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-20 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:05:47AM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:26:01PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > The code isn't very beautiful and there are lots of details wrong like > > the error codes. > > Really, what is wrong with the existing error code usages? > I

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:26:01PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > The code isn't very beautiful and there are lots of details wrong like > the error codes. Really, what is wrong with the existing error code usages? > Al had some critical things to say about it but it looks like most of > those iss

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 02:43:29AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > > what comes in the future, we are going to have

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:36:30PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > Do we really need someone to do more work that has been done on it in > > the past as an official "maintainer"? I'll be glad to do it, as I doubt > > it will require any time at all. > > Well every time in the past that Al V

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-18 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> Do we really need someone to do more work that has been done on it in > the past as an official "maintainer"? I'll be glad to do it, as I doubt > it will require any time at all. Well every time in the past that Al Viro looked in its direction he broke it so probably. Someone is going to have t

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so > might as well move it to the "real" part of the ke

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-17 Thread Dan Carpenter
The code isn't very beautiful and there are lots of details wrong like the error codes. Al had some critical things to say about it but it looks like most of those issues have been fixed. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-17 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:25:33PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:09:04AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > >> wrote: > >> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > >> >

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-16 Thread John Stultz
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:09:04AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman >> wrote: >> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> > >> > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No mat

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-16 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:18:02PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > > what comes in the future, we are going to h

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-16 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:09:04AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > > Well, ignoring the ABI break that landed in the last year.

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-16 Thread John Stultz
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter Well, ignoring the ABI break that landed in the last year. :) > what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API,

Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter > what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so > might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as t

[PATCH] staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-16 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as there's no real work that needs to be done to the existing code. Sign