Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:09:42 +0000 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 |
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:33:41PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.
The need for a compat ABI is not always obvious.
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