From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934280AbXC2AuF (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:50:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934279AbXC2AuE (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:50:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55064 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934280AbXC2AuD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:50:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:41:38 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Greg KH Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names Message-ID: <20070329004138.GA23562@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Greg KH , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070320170102.GA16341@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <3ae72650703220147j42db8f79s734d4755c2fa43fd@mail.gmail.com> <20070328031743.GA11819@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20070328041005.GA7550@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070328041005.GA7550@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said: > If you follow the rules in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class your > program will not have any problems. Oh, of *course*. We add interfaces and then claim years later, after code has been written, "Oh, you shouldn't be using that!" in documentation. Meanwhile, such code using the old interface will still a) continue to compile b) continue to run without any sort of warnings. If interfaces have to change, so be it. But changing the rules for using them years after it's implemented and then claiming "you didn't read the instructions" is pretty lame. Bill