On 12/28/2015 08:44 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:37:19AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: >> On 12/28/2015 07:03 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> There are a few discussions left with regards to this ioctl: >>> >>> 1) the name of the new structs will contain _v2_ on it? >>> 2) what's the best alternative to avoid compat32 issues? >>> >>> Due to that, let's postpone the addition of this new ioctl to >>> the next Kernel version, to give people more time to discuss it. >> >> I thought we discussed this in our irc meeting and >> arrived at a good solution for compat32 issue >> >> My recommendation is getting this ioctl into 4.5 with >> a warning that it could change. The reason for that is >> that this ioctl helps with testing the media controller >> v2 api. Without this API, we won't see much testing from >> userspace in 4.5 > > People will ignore the warning, that never works :( >
Yeah. If people do ignore warnings, it could become a problem if we have to make changes. -- Shuah -- Shuah Khan Sr. Linux Kernel Developer Open Source Innovation Group Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley) shua...@osg.samsung.com | (970) 217-8978 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
