From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Re : ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:31:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020613043134.GA18360@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020610174050.A21783@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3D07D022.5030106@mandrakesoft.com> <20020612162714.A24255@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20020612233955.GC17306@kroah.com> <20020612165030.A24311@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20020612235747.GD17306@kroah.com> <20020612203620.K16859@sventech.com>
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:36:20PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > - change usb_submit_urb and usb_alloc_urb apis
>
> Do you think it's a good idea to change the API in a stable kernel
> series?
When it fixes the real problems these api changes offer, yes.
I will be fixing up all of the in-kernel references, so I don't see any
problem this can cause. Any out-of-kernel drivers will just have to
deal with it :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-13 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-11 0:40 Re : ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit Jean Tourrilhes
2002-06-12 22:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-06-12 23:27 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2002-06-12 23:39 ` Greg KH
2002-06-12 23:50 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2002-06-12 23:57 ` Greg KH
2002-06-13 0:36 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Johannes Erdfelt
2002-06-13 4:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
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