[ofw] RE: [PATCH] UAL: Fix NULL dereference when polling a CEP

[Sean Hefty]

>Isn't that what WinVerbs is striving to do?  Aren't the IBAL IOCTLs slated for
>elimination long term?

I would like that, since it would eliminate significant code and make the kernel
IBAL pieces easier to maintain.

Once winverbs is considered released (as in WinOF 2.1), my intent is to avoid
any changes that break the ABI unless they are absolutely necessary.  And the
library should be compatible with all previous ABI versions.

>The correct fix would be to remove the field from the IOCTL altogether.  We can
>do that, but then we have to decide whether that change should require another
>bump in the IOCTL version.  Revision 2079 changed the IOCTL version and there
>hasn't been a fully functional build since, so we could eliminate the field
>from the IOCTL under the same ABI change (though a different check-in.)

I'm fine with this, since the IOCTL interface has already changed.

- Sean