From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:12:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Matching semantics for version numbers.... 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 Hi Matt, Two comments come to mind: (1) Is it correct that changing this would involve no more than: * Linux 2.4.? kernel updates: - drivers/usb/usb.c ... usb_match_id() - drivers/usb/ibmcam.c ... uses range matching - drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h ... lots of ranges * Hotplug scripts * "usbmodules" * No spec/documentation (yet) Distributions would need to get all those updates at once; I don't know how much of a problem that'd be, except that if there's no coordination then it'll be painful. If it happens, this should all be ready at the same time. (Not like the original match_flags patch ... though goofing this up would break less, since "modutils" will still work.) (2) For some reason my preference in this area would be to use "low <= value < high" range specs rather the current "low < value < high" or "low <= value <= high". That's just a better match to how I normally think about such ranges -- not a huge deal, but it seems like Jeff Ozvold had a similar thought. So maybe I'm not alone in thinking about those bcd version codes that way. - Dave _______________________________________________ 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