Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200902161618.16726.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
And even renaming is BAD as it breaks compatibility with the Linux kernel. It's bad enough that we have a binary data structure as a critical interface, but suing different variable names for the same fields would make it definitely worse.
that doesnt make any sense at all. the kernel isnt passed the structure as seen in the C language, it gets passed a binary blob. how the kernel chooses to interpret it is up to the kernel.
And how do you check for problems? At least initially by comparing the source code. Why making this more difficult than necessary?
Please leave that structure untouched.
This is my final statement on this issue.
you'd think the maintainer would be more open to talking about issues instead of closing their mind and ignoring improvements
We have discussed this here for some time now, and I considered the pros and cons and made up my mind. YMMV.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk