From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
kumar.gala@freescale.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
greg@kroah.com, akpm@kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, dsaxena@linaro.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:55:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF11715.5030001@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106090929.23671.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Then get rid of all the code that takes apart the ioctl command numbers
> again and just do a switch/case based on the command.
I still need to keep that code to maintain binary compatibility with existing
applications that pass the union as a parameter.
I'll fix that after we've updated the applications. But we have a
chicken-or-the-egg problem where we need the same application to work with the
new and old ioctl interface for a period of time.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-09 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 22:45 [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Timur Tabi
2011-06-08 23:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-08 23:16 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-09 7:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-09 16:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-09 16:36 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-09 16:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-09 16:48 ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-10 14:17 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-06-10 15:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-09 7:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-09 18:55 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2011-06-09 20:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-09 20:24 ` Timur Tabi
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