Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Simple header cleanups | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:59:38 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:37 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:32 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Sounds like they want it BSD-style. Do they realize that? > > New release, new headers, making it necessary to recompile every app, > > because a struct could have changed. That'd seriously impact > > compatibility. > > Utter crap. > > We don't _change_ any of the structs which would be exposed in such > files (i.e. the structs which should be outside the #ifdef __KERNEL__ at > the moment, because that would mean we break userspace binary > compatibility from kernel to kernel. > > We absolutely do _NOT_ want to go there. We're talking about cleaning up > the existing mess, not starting a crack habit. >
btw one advantage of having the user visible structures in their own headers is that it becomes immediately more obvious that it IS a shared struct and any reviewer can then scream about the ABI break.,,,
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