From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
mocm@mocm.de, Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DVB Include files
Date: 26 Jun 2003 00:08:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056582481.1998.20.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030625202312.GG1770@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Mer, 2003-06-25 at 21:23, Jörn Engel wrote:
> So you don't recompile, but you still changed the magic ioctl numbers
> from 17 to 47 and from 18 to 48. Old binaries don't work any more,
> even though the same semantics are still present. That is an
> incompatible change in my book.
>
> Worse if there is a new semantic for 17 or 18, in that case the old
> binaries may break randomly, depending on kernel version.
Sure but you keep old ones around once its stable. This is a completely
pointless conversation to have before 2.6.0-test kernels. There isnt a
stable in kernel dvb api yet because its not been shipped in a stable
kernel.
(Although I'd note the api has been as stable if not more stable than
some in kernel stuff 8))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 15:06 Sam Ravnborg
2003-06-25 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 15:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-06-25 16:17 ` Michael Hunold
2003-06-25 16:49 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 17:13 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 17:22 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 17:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 17:30 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 17:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 18:09 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 18:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 18:43 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 19:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-25 20:09 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 20:23 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-25 20:48 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-25 21:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 21:38 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-26 13:54 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-25 23:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-06-26 8:18 ` Michael Hunold
2003-06-26 8:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-26 13:20 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2003-06-25 21:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-25 17:27 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-25 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
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