From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:31:40 +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: > > Fine, until the next time any of the table formats have to be changed. Oh, agreed. We want to fix this eventually, but I really feel that it's a 2.5.x issue. It turns into a 2.4.x issue only if somebody can show that 2.4.0 _cannot_ work. Which is not the case, as far as I know. I certainly agree that the unintentional table format change was a very unfortunate thing. It was not intended to have the consequences it had, and obviously nobody even thought about it. As such, comments etc should probably be updated, but I don't want interface changes until they absolutely _have_ to happen. (Side note: when 2.5.x does do this and adds proper versioning, and it is found to be good, and the improved modutils spread out, we may end up back-porting the stuff later. And I would certainly not mind modutils already getting the hooks in it to support versioning - I do see that it's a good idea. It' sjust that I'd rather not make what I consider to be just cleanups when they actually change behaviour). 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