Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:11:10 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:59:24PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: >> Open up the code. Most of the changes will then be done as a matter of >> course by others.
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:44:58AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > it will not solve the problem : if a driver or any glue logic breaks, it's > because interface has changed again. When you will have 3000 open drivers, > you'll have to find people to make the changes every week. The solution in > the first place is to respect some code stability and not to break thinks > every week.
Tihs is not entirely true. I'd like to point to remap_pfn_range() as a smoothly-executed API change. All in-tree drivers were swept. Out-of- tree open-source drivers got by with nothing more than warnings. Even binary-only drivers had no trouble with mere recompiles of glue layers.
Many other API changes are also executed with similar smoothness.
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