Re: [ANN] WiMAX stack and drivers for Intel WiMAX Link 5050

Andi Kleen
2008-04-09T20:27:42Z

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:09:24AM -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > version: I anticipate the wimax API exported to user space is
> > > going to undergo a lot of changes while we all agree on what
> > > is the best interface. Because things might break, I want to
> > > make sure user space stuff can detect that and fail cleanly.
> > > Hence the versioning.
> >
> > It's still a bad way to do that (I agree with Stephen on that).
> > Was also always a mess on wireless.
> >
> > If you don't want expandable TLAs another better alternative to
> > versions is ext2 style compatible/incompatible feature bitmaps.
>
> Ain't that another way of saying versions? Sorry guys, but I am

It's a related way, but an actually sane way.

With compat/incompat bitmaps user space can actually make a educated
decision if it should fail or not

-Andi