android: Enable building ashmem and binder as modules
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:27:00 +0000 (17:27 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Thu, 22 May 2025 18:32:07 +0000 (20:32 +0200)
commitfe48a1f85a069ba8f41a62d252bfeb51aac3d8fc
tree3bab98e42d214eedd0d478e3b80c1cbb7a2bd2df
parent26d893b45eba2df577ebb996325997c032fe40b9
android: Enable building ashmem and binder as modules

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/901492

We want to enable use of the Android ashmem and binder drivers to
support Anbox, but they should not be built-in as that would waste
resources and increase security attack surface on systems that don't
need them.

- Add a MODULE_LICENSE declaration to ashmem
- Change the Makefiles to build each driver as an object with the
  "_linux" suffix (which is what Anbox expects)
- Change config symbol types to tristate

Update:
In upstream commit 721412ed3d titled "staging: remove ashmem" the ashmem
driver was removed entirely. Secondary commit message:
"The mainline replacement for ashmem is memfd, so remove the legacy
code from drivers/staging/"
Consequently, the ashmem part of this patch has been removed.

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name android-enable-building-ashmem-and-binder-as-modules.patch
drivers/android/Kconfig
drivers/android/Makefile
drivers/android/binder_alloc.c