Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] v4l2: use __u32 rather than enums in ioctl() structs

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 10 May 2012, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> The issue boils down to whether enums are fundamentally different from __u32
> or not, and can the former be substituted by the latter. During the
> discussion it was concluded that the __u32 has the same size as enums on all
> archs Linux is supported: it has not been shown that replacing those enums
> in IOCTL arguments would break neither source or binary compatibility. If no
> such reason is found, just replacing the enums with __u32s is the way to go.

Well, ARM Android was building stuff with short enums for a while, but it
seems that was corrected now, and using __u32 would in this case only
help maintain compatibility when mixing android kernels with regular
user space or vice versa.

	Arnd
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