Am Mittwoch, 07 September 2016, 09:08:07 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: > Any change to a UAPI header needs to be carefully considered and > questioned as it is always a potential userspace breakage - and in > the kernel, we're supposed to be doing our up-most to avoid > breaking userspace. > > It's not like it was in the old days when we didn't have the UAPI > seperate - today, we can find these things by looking at the patch > diffstat and seeing whether any file in "uapi" is touched. That > should be the trigger for a really in-depth review of the change. No UAPI header is touched by this patch series. That is because there are two definitions of struct kexec_segment, one in include/linux/kexec.h and the other one in include/uapi/linux/kexec.h. My patch changed the former. I was unaware of the second definition in the latter. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center
