[PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Fri Jun 10 04:55:17 EST 2011
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Then get rid of all the code that takes apart the ioctl command numbers
> again and just do a switch/case based on the command.
I still need to keep that code to maintain binary compatibility with existing
applications that pass the union as a parameter.
I'll fix that after we've updated the applications. But we have a
chicken-or-the-egg problem where we need the same application to work with the
new and old ioctl interface for a period of time.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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