Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:39:15 -0700 | From | William D Waddington <> | Subject | Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 |
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Alan Cox wrote:
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>> A cleaned-up, consistent, and out-of-tree friendly way of handling API >> changes might help us all. > > The problem is that its very impractical. If I change a kernel API I fix > up the in tree users and test those I can, that's "accepted practice" - > you make mess doing a job you clean it up. I can't do that for out of > tree code because its out of tree.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. _And_ for taking the time to look at the code.
I guess my half-assed notion is to have a single file w/"#ifdef-able" entries that flag API changes. It at least would give me/us a single point of reference, and avoid the rather ugly version checking. "LDDx" is fine, and lwn.net has saved my ass more times than I can count, but a single peg on which to hang my out-of-tree hat would seem useful.
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