Bug#901134: RFS: anbox-modules/0.0~git20180608-1 [ITP]
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 13:23 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Hi Ben!
> Could you please chime in to bug #901134 (RFS: anbox-modules)?
>
> This package wants to ship redundant copies of two modules (ashmem and
> binder) that are already in mainline since a long time ago. This strikes me
> as thoroughly wrong, yet I'm very ignorant about packaged kernels, thus I
> can't offer good advice.
I agree, I don't think it makes much sense to build these OOT if they
can be built in-tree.
The in-tree version of ashmem *cannot* be built as a module, though,
which we would probably want to change.
[...]
> Indeed, these two modules are not built within Debian kernels. They depend
> on CONFIG_ANDROID, which doesn't look like it does anything anymore except
> allowing to enable these two modules. I have bad memories of Android
> kernels doing some very naughty things (magic hard-coded uids/gids, etc),
> but I don't know if that was related to CONFIG_ANDROID or not. Even if it
> was in the past, it seems that in mainline that setting is safe to enable
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