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SubjectRe: RFC: what's in a stable series?
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2003-07-10 at 04:34, Herbert Pötzl wrote:
> > In my opinion (and you requested input *g*), the
> > kernel userland API can be changed as much as is
> > required to improve/stabilize/bugfix the kernel,
> > unless this change breaks something in userland
> > without an already available update/upgrade/etc ...
>
> In a lot of cases (like O_DIRECT) its cleaner to simply break the API
> in a way that will spew warnings if people miss changes than mess around
> with extra methods that instead break drivers that forgot to use C99
> initializers.

yeah, I obviously forgot to mention this case ;)
and I agree that sometimes this is the best way
to do it ...

but this is a little bit different because
a) you do it intentionally
b) you know how to fix it

> I plan to carry on breaking the kernel internal API when I have to
> and its easy to fix up the few affected users. I broke all the audio
> drivers between 2.4.21->22 but that was worth doing for example.

keep breaking the kernel internal ... 8-)

best,
Herbert

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