Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21
From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 10:34:42 EST
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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