From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932857AbeEHOxI (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2018 10:53:08 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:35356 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932742AbeEHOxG (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2018 10:53:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 08:53:02 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Daniel Vetter Cc: LKML , DRI Development , Eric Anholt , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: botching-up-ioctls: Make it clearer why structs must be padded Message-ID: <20180508085302.3ce62ef4@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20180502075106.7476-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> References: <20180502075106.7476-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 May 2018 09:51:06 +0200 Daniel Vetter wrote: > This came up in discussions when reviewing drm patches. Applied, thanks. > Aside: I wonder whether we shouldn't move this to some other place and > rst-ify it? Any good suggestions? For the moment, probably in Documentation/process, next to volatile-considered-harmful.rst and such. Even better, of course, would be to have some nice document on designing user-space APIs in general... one can always dream ... :) Thanks, jon