On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Serban Constantinescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> BinderDriverCommands mirror the ioctl usage. Thus the size of the
> structure passed through the interface should be used to generate the
> ioctl No.
>
> The change reflects the type being passed from the user space-a pointer
> to a binder_buffer. This change should not affect the existing 32bit
> user space since BC_FREE_BUFFER is computed as:
>
>    #define _IOW(type,nr,size)         \
>       ((type) << _IOC_TYPESHIFT) |    \
>       ((nr)   << _IOC_NRSHIFT) |      \
>       ((size) << _IOC_SIZESHIFT))
>
> and for a 32bit compiler BC_FREE_BUFFER will have the same computed
> value. This change will also ease our work in differentiating
> BC_FREE_BUFFER from COMPAT_BC_FREE_BUFFER.
>
> The change does not affect existing 32bit ABI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serban Constantinescu <[email protected]>

Acked-by:  Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>

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