Re: [PATCH] rfkill: prep for rfkill API changes

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 10:24 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > This is good, but not complete.  Changes to the API that don't change the
> > size (or those which reduces it) are a problem: they are impossible with a
> > schema that detects API version by the size alone.
> 
> Umm, no, we can also add operations as required already.

Yeah, I know.  What we can't do is to change the current ones, or drop them.

> _subtlety_ involved in actually doing a size change, nothing more. A
> real event version is _not_ necessary at all. In fact, I would argue
> that basing _anything_ on the "version" rather than the "feature set" is
> useless.

IMO version can tell you the supported feature set, but one could use a
feature set bitmap as well if one wanted.  Anyway, if you guys deem the
current way good enough, I am fine with it.

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