Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Edwards <> | Subject | Re: RFC: out-of-tree tty driver breakage (changing ASYNC_ bits) | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:53:20 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2016-01-11, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 01:42:44PM -0800, Peter Hurley wrote: > >> This will break out-of-tree drivers but I don't really see a >> realistic alternative. Also, I think the new symbol prefix ASY_ isn't >> great and I'd like to get some suggestions. > > Don't worry about breaking out-of-tree drivers, that's fine.
One request from this maintainer of several out-of-tree drivers: if you break something, break it such that it won't compile. It would be nice to avoid changes that break functionality but still compile without warning.
-- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Where do your SOCKS at go when you lose them in gmail.com th' WASHER?
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