Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: binder: Remove some funny && usage | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:31:48 -0700 |
| |
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
-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |