From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:58:28 +0100
> I'm not so sure this is suitable for stable. It doesn't seem to be > helpful to either userland or kernel code. > > In the kernel, we were checking that ver == 1 and type == 1 thus this > wasn't hurting us. > > If userland does anything more with these fields then it's probably > already working around the swapped fields. It can work with both old > and new headers by doing: It's up to you, I would rather have the corrected version propagated as soon as possible. But that's just me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
