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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thimo Braker <thibmorozier@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, arve@android.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riandrews@android.com,
	sumit.semwal@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: android: ion: fixes use of typedef
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 04:46:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160508024627.GA13955@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462652523-25037-1-git-send-email-thibmorozier@gmail.com>

On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 03:22:03PM -0500, Thimo Braker wrote:
> Fixes a checkpatch.pl warning about 'do not add new typedefs'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thimo Braker <thibmorozier@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 8 +++-----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> index 0a8e40f..77a46f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
>  #include <linux/ioctl.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  
> -typedef int ion_user_handle_t;
> -

You just broke userspace :(

Sorry, you can't do this, be careful when touching files that cross the
user/kernel boundry (hint, they have uapi in the path), you have to know
exactly what you are doing when you do that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-08  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-07 20:22 [PATCH 1/2] Staging: android: ion: fixes use of typedef Thimo Braker
2016-05-08  2:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-05-08 10:43   ` Thimo Braker

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