linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: botching-up-ioctls: Make it clearer why structs must be padded

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Message-ID: <20180508085302.3ce62ef4@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 8 May 2018 08:53:02 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: botching-up-ioctls: Make it clearer why structs
 must be padded

On Wed,  2 May 2018 09:51:06 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch> wrote:

> This came up in discussions when reviewing drm patches.

Applied, thanks.

> Aside: I wonder whether we shouldn't move this to some other place and
> rst-ify it? Any good suggestions?

For the moment, probably in Documentation/process, next to
volatile-considered-harmful.rst and such.  Even better, of course, would
be to have some nice document on designing user-space APIs in general...
one can always dream ... :)

Thanks,

jon