From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
thomas@m3y3r.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:28:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329708508.2253.9.camel@perseus.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwqChUmmDfoYX7HRUUZg5s7nBOh834=g+7avj=yc42gGg@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-20 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 0:27 Linus Torvalds
2012-02-19 13:42 ` Thomas Meyer
2012-02-19 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-19 19:49 ` David Miller
2012-02-19 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-20 3:28 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2012-02-21 3:29 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 4:02 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 4:52 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 5:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 5:39 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-21 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-21 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2012-02-21 18:26 ` Use gcc to check exported files [Was: Linux 3.3-rc4] Sam Ravnborg
2012-02-21 18:58 ` Linux 3.3-rc4 Thomas Meyer
2012-02-21 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-21 23:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-21 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-24 10:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-24 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-24 18:01 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-24 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-29 8:38 ` Jiri Kosina
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