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

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  Re: [PATCH] staging/android: change IOCTLs opcode after ABI change Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> - 2016-03-09 03:40 +0100

#1353738 — Re: [PATCH] staging/android: change IOCTLs opcode after ABI change

On 03/03/2016 02:42 PM, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
>
> 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@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>

Acked-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>

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