From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: out-of-tree tty driver breakage (changing ASYNC_ bits)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:53:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n70j5g$sem$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160111044204.GB12741@kroah.com
On 2016-01-11, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 01:42:44PM -0800, Peter Hurley wrote:
>
>> This will break out-of-tree drivers but I don't really see a
>> realistic alternative. Also, I think the new symbol prefix ASY_ isn't
>> great and I'd like to get some suggestions.
>
> Don't worry about breaking out-of-tree drivers, that's fine.
One request from this maintainer of several out-of-tree drivers: if
you break something, break it such that it won't compile. It would be
nice to avoid changes that break functionality but still compile
without warning.
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at go when you lose them in
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-11 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-10 21:42 RFC: out-of-tree tty driver breakage (changing ASYNC_ bits) Peter Hurley
2016-01-10 23:44 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-11 0:36 ` Peter Hurley
2016-01-11 4:42 ` Greg KH
2016-01-11 5:16 ` Peter Hurley
2016-01-11 15:53 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2016-01-11 16:24 ` Peter Hurley
2016-06-28 15:39 ` Grant Edwards
2016-06-28 15:54 ` Grant Edwards
2016-06-28 16:05 ` Grant Edwards
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