linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] usb: raw-gadget: fix gadget endpoint selection

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Date:   Sat, 09 May 2020 11:02:13 +0300
From:   Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usb: raw-gadget: fix gadget endpoint selection


Hi,

Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com> writes:
>> here you're changing userspace ABI. Aren't we going to possibly break
>> some existing applications?
>
> Hi Felipe,
>
>  I've been working on tests for Raw Gadget for the last few weeks [1],
> which revealed a few problems with the interface. This isn't yet
> included into any released kernel, so my hope that changing the ABI is
> OK during the rc stage.

Fair enough. If that's okay with Greg, it's okay with me, but then how
do we include it into the -rc seen as it's not really a fix?

Greg, are you okay with me including such large patches during the -rc?
They essentially add new IOCTLs to the raw-gadget interface.

-- 
balbi

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