From: Philippe Bergheaud
> Sent: 04 August 2016 14:56
> This patch fixes a regression introduced by commit b810253.
> It substitutes the type __u8 to u8 in the uapi header cxl.h,
> because the latter is not always defined in userland build
> environments, in particular when cross-compiling libcxl on
> x86_64 linux machines (RHEL6.7 and Ubuntu 16.04).
>
> It also makes the definition of cxl_event_afu_driver_reserved
> more consistent with the other definitions in the header file.
...
> diff --git a/include/uapi/misc/cxl.h b/include/uapi/misc/cxl.h
> index cbae529..180d526 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/misc/cxl.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/misc/cxl.h
> @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ struct cxl_event_afu_driver_reserved {
> *
> * Of course the contents will be ABI, but that's up the AFU driver.
> */
> - size_t data_size;
> - u8 data[];
> + __u32 data_size;
> + __u8 data[];
> };
You've just changed 'data_size' from 64bit to 32bit (on 64bit systems).
This isn't mentioned in the commit message and changes the API.
I've NFI what it need to be...
David
