Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750700AbXBKPeZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:34:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750696AbXBKPeZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:34:25 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:50628 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750700AbXBKPeY (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:34:24 -0500 Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 From: David Woodhouse To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Heiko Carstens , Davide Libenzi , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ulrich Drepper In-Reply-To: <20070210213447.GB9116@linux-mips.org> References: <20070208150710.1324f6b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1171042535.29713.96.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070209134516.2367a7aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1171058342.29713.136.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070210102205.GB8145@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1171103527.29713.228.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070210213447.GB9116@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:33:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1171208022.16494.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 703 Lines: 17 On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 21:34 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Unfortunately struct epoll_event contains a gap so it bets on identical > padding rules between native and compat ABI and anyway, padding is wasted > space so the struct members should have been swapped when this structure > was created. Oh well, too late. Indeed. That was the example I was thinking of when I suggested the "no new syscalls without _simultaneous_ compat version" rule. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/