Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 19:40:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] struct char_device |
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > IMHO it would be nice to (for 2.4) create wrappers for accessing the > block arrays, so that we can more easily dispose of the arrays when 2.5 > rolls around...
No.
We do not create wrappers "so that we can easily change the implementation when xxx happens".
That way lies bad implementations.
We do the _good_ implementation first, and then we create the "kcompat-2.4" file later that makes people able to use the good implementation.
Why this way? Because wrapping for wrappings sake just makes code unreadable (see acpi), and often makes it less obvious what you actually _have_ to do, and what you don't. So get the design right _first_, and once the design is right, _then_ you worry about kcompat-2.4.
Linus
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