Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: what's in a stable series? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 10 Jul 2003 12:22:35 +0100 |
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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.
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.
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