From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:39:31 +0000 Subject: Re: (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel