From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v5] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:25:07 +0200 Message-ID: <201106092225.08090.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1307646794-26374-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <4DF12345.1040409@freescale.com> <4DF123AA.6070402@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DF123AA.6070402@oracle.com> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Randy Dunlap , Timur Tabi , konrad.wilk@oracle.com, kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, akpm@kernel.org, dsaxena@linaro.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk On Thursday 09 June 2011 21:48:58 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > So is it okay to stick with 0, or do I need to pick a new number? > > I wasn't suggesting that you change the 0, just note that it has conflicts, > like other ioctls do. We normally don't try to maintain binary compatibility with out of tree kernel patches. That only leads to inferior interfaces finding their way into the kernel. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C9DB7021 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:25:30 +1000 (EST) From: Arnd Bergmann To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v5] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:25:07 +0200 References: <1307646794-26374-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <4DF12345.1040409@freescale.com> <4DF123AA.6070402@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF123AA.6070402@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201106092225.08090.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap , konrad.wilk@oracle.com, greg@kroah.com, kumar.gala@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, akpm@kernel.org, dsaxena@linaro.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Timur Tabi , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thursday 09 June 2011 21:48:58 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > So is it okay to stick with 0, or do I need to pick a new number? > > I wasn't suggesting that you change the 0, just note that it has conflicts, > like other ioctls do. We normally don't try to maintain binary compatibility with out of tree kernel patches. That only leads to inferior interfaces finding their way into the kernel. Arnd