[PATCH] staging/android: add flags member to sync ioctl structs
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Mar 3 16:17:14 UTC 2016
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:37:17AM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan at 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.
>
> v2: check if flags are valid (zero, in this case)
>
> v3: return -EINVAL if flags are not zero'ed
>
> v4: add padding for 64-bit alignment
>
> v5: rebase to use only stacked sync_file_info
Why are these vX things here in the changelog?
And you just broke all existing userspace users of this code, why are
you allowed to do that?
not ok...
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