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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Cc: "Amit Pundir" <amit.pundir@linaro.org>,
	"open list:ANDROID DRIVERS" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"Martijn Coenen" <maco@google.com>,
	"John Stultz" <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	kbuild-all@01.org, "Todd Kjos" <tkjos@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ANDROID: binder: remove 32-bit binder interface.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 10:08:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180511080801.GC3258@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB0TPYG-Q6Ki_FMM1u+i_g+0ykQgeUTRpm00qycAUVQOqVH6eQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 2:10 PM, kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> wrote:
> >    drivers/android/binder.o: In function `binder_thread_write':
> >>> binder.c:(.text+0x6a16): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'
> 
> Looks like m68k doesn't support 64-bit get_user(). I could just have
> binder depend on !CONFIG_M68K, but there may be other architectures
> still that don't support this. Another alternative would be to
> whitelist the architectures Android supports - eg arm, arm64, x86,
> x86_64. But I'm not sure if arch-limited drivers are considered bad
> form. Does anybody have suggestions for how to deal with this?

I think using !CONFIG_M68K is a good start.  We can blacklist any other
arch that doesn't support this, and that list should be small as I doubt
any new ones will be added without this support.

thanks,

greg k-h
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-11  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-04 19:57 [PATCH] ANDROID: binder: remove 32-bit binder interface Martijn Coenen
2018-05-05 21:10 ` kbuild test robot
2018-05-11  7:57   ` Martijn Coenen
2018-05-11  8:08     ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-05-11  8:17       ` Martijn Coenen
2018-05-14 12:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-14 14:00       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-05-14 21:30         ` Martijn Coenen

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