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Message-ID: <14f7bbfea8a17dcd12e7d40641198063428d19b3.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 23:15:14 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: systemd-rfkill regression on 5.11 and later kernels
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 12:16 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Yeah, that's a dilemma. An oft-seen trick is to add more bytes for
> > the future use, e.g. extend to 16 bytes and fill 0 for the remaining.
>
> Yeah, I guess I could stick a reserved[15] there, it's small enough.
Actually, that doesn't really help anything either.
If today I require that the reserved bytes are sent as 0 by userspace,
then any potential expansion that requires userspace to set it will
break when userspace does it and runs on an old kernel.
If I don't require the reserved bytes to be set to 0 then somebody will
invariably get it wrong and send garbage, and then we again cannot
extend it.
So ... that all seems pointless. I guess I'll send the patch as it is
now.
johannes
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