From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
To: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Daniel Stone" <daniels@collabora.com>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Riley Andrews" <riandrews@android.com>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
"Rob Clark" <robdclark@gmail.com>,
"Greg Hackmann" <ghackmann@google.com>,
"John Harrison" <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>,
"Gustavo Padovan" <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] staging/android: add flags member to sync ioctl structs
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:39:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF19D5.5010505@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454102426-20637-10-git-send-email-gustavo@padovan.org>
Op 29-01-16 om 22:20 schreef Gustavo Padovan:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
>
> Play safe and add flags member to all structs. So we don't need to
> break API or create new IOCTL in the future if new features that requires
> flags arises.
>
This only helps if you reject flags != 0 in the ioctl, else when you extend the abi userspace might initialize it with garbage.
~Maarten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-01 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-29 21:20 [PATCH 00/10] android sync framework: clean up IOCTLs and ABI Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 01/10] staging/android: remove SYNC_WAIT ioctl Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 02/10] staging/android: rename sync_pt_info to fence_info Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 03/10] staging/android: rename sync_file_info_data to sync_file_info Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 04/10] staging/android: remove driver_data from struct fence_info Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 05/10] staging/android: remove len field " Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 06/10] staging/android: turn fence_info into a __64 pointer Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-30 18:04 ` Emil Velikov
2016-02-01 8:41 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2016-02-01 18:00 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-02-02 13:04 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 07/10] staging/android: add num_fences field to struct sync_file_info Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 08/10] staging/android: rename SYNC_IOC_FENCE_INFO Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 09/10] staging/android: add flags member to sync ioctl structs Gustavo Padovan
2016-01-30 18:12 ` Emil Velikov
2016-02-01 13:24 ` Gustavo Padovan
2016-02-01 8:39 ` Maarten Lankhorst [this message]
2016-01-29 21:20 ` [PATCH 10/10] staging/android: remove redundant comments on sync_merge_data Gustavo Padovan
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