linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 6/9] staging: vme_user: return -EFAULT on __copy_*

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2015 13:42:51 +0100
From:	Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...com>
To:	Dmitry Kalinkin <dmitry.kalinkin@...il.com>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 6/9] staging: vme_user: return -EFAULT on __copy_*_user
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On 25/06/15 13:05, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote:
>
> This is why I think this is not a “we broke userspace” situation.

The vme_user module is also in the staging tree and (almost) by 
definition the API shouldn't be considered as stable.

Martyn

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