Re: [PATCH V2 3/6] mpcore_wdt: Fix WDIOC_SETOPTIONS handling

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> That looks like something which needs fixing in watchdog land.  And it's
> not too difficult:
> 
> 1. Change the existing WDIOC_SETOPTIONS to WDIOC_SETOPTIONS_OLD
> 2. Add a new, correctly defined WDIOC_SETOPTIONS.
> 3. Update all drivers to use WDIOC_SETOPTIONS.
> 4. Provide a helper which deals with WDIOC_SETOPTIONS_OLD and translates
>    it to the proper WDIOC_SETOPTIONS call (this could be just:
> 
>         if (cmd == WDIOC_SETOPTIONS_OLD) {
>                 static int first = 1;
>                 if (first)
>                         pr_warn("%s:%d used old WDIOC_SETOPTIONS call.  Please rebuild\n",
>                                 current->comm, current->pid);
>                 first = 0;
>                 cmd = WDIOC_SETOPTIONS;
>         }
> 
>    before any argument copies.
> 
> This means you preserve existing compatibility with userspace, yet gain
> a path to a non-broken ioctl interface.
> 
> As stuff gets rebuilt and replaced, you'll eventually be able to remove
> the above.  That period used to be two years for such simple changes.

Since Wim is currently doing a new core driver to be used by watchdog
drivers anyway, that sounds like a good idea to fix afterwards.
Note that the mpcore_wdt is the only driver that checks the direction
bit, so it's unlikely to cause problems for anything else.

> Hopefully, someone can let Wim know his email is broken...

This should get through to him I hope. Wim, see below.

> Also deleted
> the broken arm@kernel.org address.

Ok, sorry about that. I need to finally ask the kernel.org team to
set that up, I announced it too early.

	Arnd

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