Re: Linux 3.3-rc4

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:49 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A real shame, this should have used "__aligned_u64" from the
> > beginning.
> 
> I agree. Sadly, this is exactly the kind of thing that is *really*
> easy to overlook, and once it is overlooked we're screwed because
> fixing it just breaks the native 32-bit case.

It sure is.

There was a suggestion from the systemd folks to bump the kernel
protocol major version to 6 and add a packed structure for use with that
version and beyond. That's a bit ugly too but won't break things that
already work around it in user space for major version 5 and avoids.

I've not got around to checking if the patch works correctly and
finishing it.

Ian


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/