From: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
To: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Daniel Stone" <daniels@collabora.com>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Riley Andrews" <riandrews@android.com>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
"Rob Clark" <robdclark@gmail.com>,
"John Harrison" <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>,
"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
"Gustavo Padovan" <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/android: change IOCTLs opcode after ABI change
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:36:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56DF8C3D.7030005@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457044963-5785-1-git-send-email-gustavo@padovan.org>
On 03/03/2016 02:42 PM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
>
> Burn the old opcode to avoid any potential old userspace running the old
> API to get weird errors. Changing the opcodes will make them fail right
> away.
>
> This is just a precaution, there no upstream users of these interfaces
> yet and the only user is Android, but we don't expect anyone trying to
> run android userspace and all it dependencies on top of upstream kernels.
>
> Moreover Android should be converted to use upstream sync_files.
>
> Suggested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-03 19:40 [PATCH v7 1/5] staging/android: add num_fences field to struct sync_file_info Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-03 19:40 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] staging/android: rename SYNC_IOC_FENCE_INFO Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-03 19:40 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] staging/android: remove redundant comments on sync_merge_data Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-03 19:40 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] staging/android: refactor SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-03 19:40 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] staging/android: add flags member to sync ioctl structs Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-03 22:42 ` [PATCH] staging/android: change IOCTLs opcode after ABI change Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-09 2:36 ` Greg Hackmann [this message]
2016-03-11 22:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-12 17:34 ` Rob Clark
2016-03-09 2:36 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] staging/android: add num_fences field to struct sync_file_info Greg Hackmann
2016-03-31 1:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-31 2:53 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-03-31 3:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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