From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple header cleanups
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:37:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146238623.11909.524.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0604281729250.9011@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:32 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Sounds like they want it BSD-style. Do they realize that?
> New release, new headers, making it necessary to recompile every app,
> because a struct could have changed. That'd seriously impact
> compatibility.
Utter crap.
We don't _change_ any of the structs which would be exposed in such
files (i.e. the structs which should be outside the #ifdef __KERNEL__ at
the moment, because that would mean we break userspace binary
compatibility from kernel to kernel.
We absolutely do _NOT_ want to go there. We're talking about cleaning up
the existing mess, not starting a crack habit.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 2:13 David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 2:27 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-27 2:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:00 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 4:32 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-27 2:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:17 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 3:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:41 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 7:10 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-27 7:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-27 8:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-27 11:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-27 21:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-27 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 23:11 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-28 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-28 0:55 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-28 15:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-28 15:37 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-04-28 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-28 16:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-04-29 10:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-03 2:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-04-30 9:38 ` Peter Chubb
2006-04-30 9:59 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-30 21:48 ` Peter Chubb
2006-04-27 15:05 ` David Woodhouse
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