Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:17:26PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
+#include <asm/ioctl.h>
+#include <asm/types.h>
Always use the <linux/ versions.
Fixed.
+struct fw_cdev_get_info {
+ /* The version field is just a running serial number. We
+ * never break backwards compatibility. Userspace passes in
+ * the version it expects and the kernel passes back the
+ * highest version it can provide. Even if the structs in
+ * this interface are extended in a later version, the kernel
+ * will not copy back more data than what was present in the
+ * interface version userspace expects. */
+ __u32 version;
Please don't even try to build interfaces this complicated. If your
current interface needs changes at some point just introduce new ioctls.
Sure, I don't expect a lot of changes anyway, and the few features I know that
will show up down the road are strictly additions anyway. I think it makes
sense to keep the version number there, though, as a way to advertise which
ioctls are present.
Kristian
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