From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:39:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98005198311026@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98004206800249@msgid-missing>
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> For the record. The addition of match_flags in struct usb_device_id
> highlighted an ABI problem between the kernel and depmod. It proved
> that relying on the table size to detect format changes was a bad
> idea(TM), adding a field will not always change the table size. The
> table version numbers added in my patch (appended) are _required_ for
> depmod to reliably detect that a format has changed.
I'd much rather just have the 2.4.0 behaviour, and no versioning. Tell
people that 2.4.0-test kernels won't work. They'll notice on their own.
This problem won't be a problem in a few months if we just kill it _now_,
rather than try to work around it.
Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-21 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-21 1:57 (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb module Miles Lane
2001-01-21 4:36 ` (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb Linus Torvalds
2001-01-21 4:39 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-01-21 5:24 ` (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb module Miles Lane
2001-01-21 5:26 ` (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working Linus Torvalds
2001-01-21 5:31 ` (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb Linus Torvalds
2001-01-21 5:42 ` (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working David Brownell
2001-01-21 7:54 ` (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb module Miles Lane
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