From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Drop I2C_DEVNAME and i2c_clientname
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:56:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050831205604.GJ19361@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125502498.9401.99.camel@localhost>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:34:58PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Ter, 2005-08-30 ?s 23:20 +0200, Jean Delvare escreveu:
> > Hi Mauro,
> >
> > > (...) it would be nice not to have a different I2C
> > > API for every single 2.6 version :-) It would be nice to change I2C
> > > API once and keep it stable for a while.
>
> > The Linux 2.6 development model is designed around a relatively fast
> > move from -mm to Linus' tree, which implies incremental changes all the
> > time. I'm only doing that.
> It is ok to change code, but, IMHO, API should be more stable.
I take it you have not read Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt yet?
If not, please do, it shows that what you are asking for will not
happen.
good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-01 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-15 17:57 [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Drop I2C_DEVNAME and i2c_clientname Jean Delvare
2005-08-22 20:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-08-24 22:19 ` Jean Delvare
2005-08-30 0:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-08-30 19:44 ` Greg KH
2005-08-30 21:20 ` Jean Delvare
2005-08-31 15:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-08-31 20:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-09-01 3:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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