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Message-ID: <478967481871457488a1ea289237c7ab@EXCHCS32.ornl.gov>
Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:48:22 +0000
From:	"Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@...l.gov>
To:	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	'Dan Carpenter' <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Amir Shehata <amir.shehata@...el.com>,
	"lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 13/40] staging: lustre: Dynamic LNet Configuration (DLC)
 show command

>On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 06:14:19PM +0000, Simmons, James A. wrote:
>>   
>> >>  struct libcfs_ioctl_hdr {
>> >>  	__u32 ioc_len;
>> >> @@ -87,6 +88,13 @@ do {						    \
>> >>  	data.ioc_hdr.ioc_len = sizeof(data);			\
>> >>  } while (0)
>> >>  
>> >> +#define LIBCFS_IOC_INIT_V2(data, hdr)			\
>> >> +do {							\
>> >> +	memset(&(data), 0, sizeof(data));		\
>> >> +	(data).hdr.ioc_version = LIBCFS_IOCTL_VERSION2;	\
>> >> +	(data).hdr.ioc_len = sizeof(data);		\
>> >> +} while (0)
>> >> +
>> >
>> >Do we really need this?
>> 
>> Would you be okay if this was a inline function? This is used by user
>> land and kernel space code.
>
>Then your code is broken, please never do that.

This brings up a good point. This header doesn't contain structures for userland so it is a uapi
type header.  Should such headers only contain data structures?

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