Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:28:02 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.1 API change summary |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Andreas Bombe wrote:
| One problem with following kernel development is that new APIs are | nowhere really summarized outside of the list thread where they are | developed (if there is a thread at all). So maybe there's this great | new function that simplifies something in your driver, but you don't | know about it and only stumble across it much later (like 50 dev kernel | revisions) and wish you'd known earlier. | | So someone should just collect the changes and post a summary to | linux-kernel, now wouldn't that be useful ... | | [Silence, far away keyboards can be heard having "So I take it you | volun..." typed on them.] | | ... and I will try to do that for the kernel 2.5 revisions. | | I have collected the API changes in 2.5.1 and summarized below. I just | read the patch for all the *.h files, so I may have confused something | (like not realizing something just moved instead of being new). I also | don't know much about most of the areas I'm summarizing, any corrections | are welcome. | | These summaries won't serve as documentation except when it's short and | simple. If there are big changes, I won't list every detail (I just | remind you that there is something, you can read the source yourself). | I will list changes which are global or at least apply to a whole | subsystem. | | You'll also find stuff that's pretty much the talk of the week on | linux-kernel and therefore well known, but these summaries should also | serve as a overview ("when was what introduced") in combination with the | kernel changelogs for those who get into 2.5 later (yes, I will archive | these summaries on the web when I get a few together). | | So, here it goes: | | =======================================================================
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I guess you won't see summaries of proposals or actual changes in IRC discussions (: , but linux-kernel (mailing list) does have _some_ of them. For links to the ones that I'm aware of (for 2.5.x), see
http://www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/linux-port-25x.html .
~Randy
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