Re: ses ioctl API/ABI stability

2021-08-26 Thread David Chisnall
On 25/08/2021 22:19, Alan Somers wrote: We usually try to maintain backwards compatibility forever. But is that necessary for the ses(4) ioctls? There are several problems with them as currently defined. They lack type safety, lack automatic copyin/copyout handling, and one of them can overrun

Re: ses ioctl API/ABI stability

2021-08-26 Thread Alan Somers
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 2:21 AM David Chisnall wrote: > On 25/08/2021 22:19, Alan Somers wrote: > > We usually try to maintain backwards compatibility forever. But is that > > necessary for the ses(4) ioctls? There are several problems with them as > > currently defined. They lack type safety,