Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jan 26 2022 - 16:00:41 EST


On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:41:38 -0800
Beau Belgrave <beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Right, and on the user side we will not know the start of the "data" /
> fixed offset without carrying back that information somehow, due to the
> common header size not being a fixed length forever.

Good point! The data is not exported to user space via the format files
like the __ref_loc field is, so there's no guarantee of knowing where data
is.

Let's leave it as is.

-- Steve