On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 17:55 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:58:28 +0100 > > > I'm not so sure this is suitable for stable. It doesn't seem to be > > helpful to either userland or kernel code. > > > > In the kernel, we were checking that ver == 1 and type == 1 thus this > > wasn't hurting us. > > > > If userland does anything more with these fields then it's probably > > already working around the swapped fields. It can work with both old > > and new headers by doing: > > It's up to you, I would rather have the corrected version propagated > as soon as possible. But that's just me. Let's see what Greg thinks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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