From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:55:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4DF11715.5030001@freescale.com> References: <1307573154-15838-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106090929.23671.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201106090929.23671.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnd Bergmann 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 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