Re: sparse_irq: userspace ABI breakage in -tip tree

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> commit 70426a06a58561c401e64c5767d71a011d4b978b
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Aug 19 20:50:27 2008 -0700
>
>    x86: make 32 bit to use sparse_irq
>
> @@ -285,7 +303,7 @@ int show_interrupts(struct seq_file *p, void *v)
>                action = desc->action;
>                if (!action && !any_count)
>                        goto skip;
> -               seq_printf(p, "%3d: ",i);
> +               seq_printf(p, "%#x: ",i);
>  #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
>                seq_printf(p, "%10u ", kstat_irqs(i));
>  #else
>
>
> this is a userspace ABI breakage; you're changing /proc/interrupts from
> decimal to hex! This file is used by both humans and computer programs,
> and the humans will get confused, but the computer programs will break.
> Not a good idea to put into mainline.

change back to decimal could help?

>
> (I'm not so convinced of sparse_irq as a whole to be honest, but that's
> a different story)

anything need to be addressed?

YH