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

2018-08-02 Thread Christian Brauner
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:41:09PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:12:24PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > > > > I don't expect this pa

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

2018-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 09:34 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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 > >

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

2018-07-30 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:12:24PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > > > I don't expect this patch to be mergeable but rather to kick-off a > > > > discussion i

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

2018-07-30 Thread Christian Brauner
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:12:24PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > > I don't expect this patch to be mergeable but rather to kick-off a > > > discussion if we can either simply export them as they are or how we can > > > get supp

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

2018-07-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:12:24PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > I don't expect this patch to be mergeable but rather to kick-off a > > discussion if we can either simply export them as they are or how we can > > get supportable exports that allow access to struct files_struct. > > Maybe tha

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

2018-07-30 Thread Christian Brauner
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 09:34:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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 u

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

2018-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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 >

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

2018-07-30 Thread Christian Brauner
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 patch