On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ah, this wasn't brought up in the original thread when discussing to > turn this into a module. If using internal functions like this is going > away it makes sense to wait for this work to happen first. Is there a > time-frame for this? Not yet, it depends on the solution and who has cycles to work on it. Martijn > > Thanks! > Christian > >> >> > >> > But I think the binder user-space API relies on this. The userspace API >> > seems to rely on passing fd numbers around ... but I'm having trouble >> > figuring most of this user API out. Perhaps Martijn can help here. >> >> The UAPI does expect a file descriptor, but we may be able to do the >> mapping from fd to struct file (and vice-versa) in the kernel driver, >> so userspace wouldn't notice. >> >> Thanks, >> Martijn