Re: [PATCH] staging/android: add flags member to sync ioctl structs

From: Ville Syrjälä
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 15:01:24 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 08:17:14AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:37:17AM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Play safe and add flags member to all structs. So we don't need to
> > break API or create new IOCTL in the future if new features that requires
> > flags arises.
> >
> > v2: check if flags are valid (zero, in this case)
> >
> > v3: return -EINVAL if flags are not zero'ed
> >
> > v4: add padding for 64-bit alignment
> >
> > v5: rebase to use only stacked sync_file_info
>
> Why are these vX things here in the changelog?

That's how we usually roll in gpu land.

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Ville Syrjälä
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