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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Drop I2C_DEVNAME and i2c_clientname
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:14:27 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125544467.16937.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050831205604.GJ19361@kroah.com>

Em Qua, 2005-08-31 às 13:56 -0700, Greg KH escreveu:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:34:58PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Ter, 2005-08-30 ?s 23:20 +0200, Jean Delvare escreveu:
> > > Hi Mauro,
> > > 
> > > > (...) it would be nice not to have a different I2C
> > > > API for every single 2.6 version :-) It would be nice to change I2C
> > > > API once and keep it stable for a while.
> > 
> > > The Linux 2.6 development model is designed around a relatively fast
> > > move from -mm to Linus' tree, which implies incremental changes all the
> > > time. I'm only doing that.
> > 	It is ok to change code, but, IMHO, API should be more stable.
> 
> I take it you have not read Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt yet?
	No I din't :-)
> If not, please do, it shows that what you are asking for will not
> happen.
	I was not asking for a 'stable' one.. but a less variant... anyway, I
can survive with this policy ;-)
> 
> good luck,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
Cheers, 
Mauro.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 17:57 [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Drop I2C_DEVNAME and i2c_clientname Jean Delvare
2005-08-22 20:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-08-24 22:19   ` Jean Delvare
2005-08-30  0:12     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-08-30 19:44       ` Greg KH
2005-08-30 21:20       ` Jean Delvare
2005-08-31 15:34         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-08-31 20:56           ` Greg KH
2005-09-01  3:14             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]

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