Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 3.3-rc4 | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:28:28 +0800 |
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On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:49 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > > A real shame, this should have used "__aligned_u64" from the > > beginning. > > I agree. Sadly, this is exactly the kind of thing that is *really* > easy to overlook, and once it is overlooked we're screwed because > fixing it just breaks the native 32-bit case.
It sure is.
There was a suggestion from the systemd folks to bump the kernel protocol major version to 6 and add a packed structure for use with that version and beyond. That's a bit ugly too but won't break things that already work around it in user space for major version 5 and avoids.
I've not got around to checking if the patch works correctly and finishing it.
Ian
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