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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: binder: Remove some funny && usage
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:31:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245274308.5982.268.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6200be20906171426n71979124i4b359b6f4fc35d7e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 14:26 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> > On 06/17/09 09:08, Daniel Walker wrote:
> ...
> > Also, what its usermode ABI is, how stable it is, whether its generally
> > useful, does it have glibc/other library support, etc.  Would you ever want
> > to use this in a non-Android context?
> 
> You could use this in a non-android context, but the abi is not
> stable. There is some documentaion of the current user space api at
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/IBinder.html. You
> can also find more information at http://www.open-binder.org/ which is
> where the api came from.


Why does all this need to be done in the kernel? Couldn't any of the
current IPC mechanisms be re-used to accomplish this?

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 18:51 [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: binder: Remove some funny && usage Daniel Walker
2009-06-12 18:51 ` [PATCH 2/6] staging: android: binder: move debugging mask into a macro Daniel Walker
2009-06-12 18:51   ` [PATCH 3/6] staging: android: binder: remove a predefine Daniel Walker
2009-06-12 18:51     ` [PATCH 4/6] staging: android: binder: add enum usage in function arguments Daniel Walker
2009-06-12 18:51       ` [PATCH 5/6] staging: android: binder: global variable cleanup Daniel Walker
2009-06-12 18:51         ` [PATCH 6/6] staging: android: binder: clean up for all the stat statments Daniel Walker
2009-06-16 20:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: binder: Remove some funny && usage Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-17 14:37   ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-17 15:28     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-17 16:08       ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-17 16:31         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-17 21:26           ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-06-17 21:31             ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-06-19 19:20               ` Brian Swetland
2009-06-19 22:53                 ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-20  0:13                   ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-06-20  0:49                     ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-20 18:48                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-21 12:09                       ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-25  4:09                       ` Dianne Hackborn
2009-06-25 10:14                         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-25 11:34                           ` Alan Cox
2009-06-25 13:24                         ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-27  2:20                           ` GeunSik Lim
2009-06-20  1:26                     ` GeunSik Lim
2009-06-24 13:13                     ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-24 22:14                       ` Brian Swetland
2009-06-24 22:49                         ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-24 23:05                           ` Brian Swetland
2009-06-24 23:29                             ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-24 23:37                               ` Brian Swetland
2009-06-25  0:01                         ` Linus Walleij
2009-06-25  0:20                           ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-25  8:15                             ` Alan Cox
2009-06-25  9:56                               ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-06-17 21:38             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-19 14:59   ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-19 15:08     ` Daniel Walker

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