Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:07:41 -0800 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.36/2.6.37: broken compatibility with userspace input-utils ? |
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:49:14PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Or perhaps get rid of that unworkable "version number" thing > (just freeze it in time with the 2.6.35 value returned), > and implement a "get_feature_flags" ioctl or something for going forward. > Then you can just turn on new bits in the flags as new features are added. >
That could be done but I do not expect retire features so far so version is about the same. Plus, what guarantees that someone in the future won't write a utility that compares exact capability bitmap and refuse to work when new ones will be added?
-- Dmitry
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