Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

[David Woodhouse]

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.

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dwmw2

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