From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:09:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070211160941.GA20998@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171208022.16494.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:33:41PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 21:34 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Unfortunately struct epoll_event contains a gap so it bets on identical
> > padding rules between native and compat ABI and anyway, padding is wasted
> > space so the struct members should have been swapped when this structure
> > was created. Oh well, too late.
>
> Indeed. That was the example I was thinking of when I suggested the "no
> new syscalls without _simultaneous_ compat version" rule.
The need for a compat ABI is not always obvious.
Ralf
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2007-02-10 10:22 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 Heiko Carstens
2007-02-10 10:32 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-10 21:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-11 4:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-02-11 15:33 ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-11 16:09 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-02-11 16:14 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-02-11 16:34 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-02-11 18:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-10 21:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-02-11 10:37 ` Andi Kleen
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