Re: [PATCH] staging/android: change IOCTLs opcode after ABI change

[Greg Hackmann]

On 03/03/2016 02:42 PM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Burn the old opcode to avoid any potential old userspace running the old
> API to get weird errors. Changing the opcodes will make them fail right
> away.
>
> This is just a precaution, there no upstream users of these interfaces
> yet and the only user is Android, but we don't expect anyone trying to
> run android userspace and all it dependencies on top of upstream kernels.
>
> Moreover Android should be converted to use upstream sync_files.
>
> Suggested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>