On Thursday 10 May 2012, Sakari Ailus wrote: > The issue boils down to whether enums are fundamentally different from __u32 > or not, and can the former be substituted by the latter. During the > discussion it was concluded that the __u32 has the same size as enums on all > archs Linux is supported: it has not been shown that replacing those enums > in IOCTL arguments would break neither source or binary compatibility. If no > such reason is found, just replacing the enums with __u32s is the way to go. Well, ARM Android was building stuff with short enums for a while, but it seems that was corrected now, and using __u32 would in this case only help maintain compatibility when mixing android kernels with regular user space or vice versa. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
