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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_core.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_core.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_core.h b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_core.h index 4188c12b839f..77c3a9c8255d 100644 --- a/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_core.h +++ b/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_core.h @@ -15,6 +15,21 @@ #include <linux/vboxguest.h> #include "vmmdev.h" +/* + * The mainline kernel version (this version) of the vboxguest module + * contained a bug where it defined VBGL_IOCTL_VMMDEV_REQUEST_BIG and + * VBGL_IOCTL_LOG using _IOC(_IOC_READ | _IOC_WRITE, 'V', ...) instead + * of _IO(V, ...) as the out of tree VirtualBox upstream version does. + * + * These _ALT definitions keep compatibility with the wrong defines the + * mainline kernel version used for a while. + * Note the VirtualBox userspace bits have always been built against + * VirtualBox upstream's headers, so this is likely not necessary. But + * we must never break our ABI so we keep these around to be 100% sure. + */ +#define VBG_IOCTL_VMMDEV_REQUEST_BIG_ALT _IOC(_IOC_READ | _IOC_WRITE, 'V', 3, 0) +#define VBG_IOCTL_LOG_ALT(s) _IOC(_IOC_READ | _IOC_WRITE, 'V', 9, s) + struct vbg_session; /** VBox guest memory balloon. */ |