Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:45:51 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v5] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver |
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2011 22:18:28 Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Ok, I was really hoping to avoid doing this. Like I said, binary compatibility > > is important, and changing the type will break my existing apps. Are you > > insisting that I pick a new number?
> I definitely insist that you have a proper interface in the driver at the > time that it gets merged, and that probably includes a collision-free > ioctl code.
This sort of stuff is one of the issues that should be being factored in to any decision not to publish and submit the kernel code - ABIs that haven't been reviewed upstream may well have this sort of issue.
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