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 > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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. > > > > Where does one find the canonical documentation of the user-space API? > > There really is only one "canonical" thing, and that is in the libbinder > code in the Android userspace repository. And it's not really > "documentation" so much as, "a C file that interacts with the ioctls in > the binder kernel code" :( > > Think of this as just a random character driver with some funny ioctls > that will never get really documented as there is only one user of it. This is not random character driver, it is communication mechanism. It should _not_ be a character driver. And it should really be documented. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
