From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758901AbYDHTEX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:04:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756013AbYDHTEM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:04:12 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([216.93.170.194]:40201 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753330AbYDHTEL (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:04:11 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.222 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:04:03 -0500 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Cc: wimax@linuxwimax.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANN] WiMAX stack and drivers for Intel WiMAX Link 5050 Message-ID: <20080408140403.3e7191bb@speedy> In-Reply-To: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> References: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Looking at the kernel/user interface: wimax-tools-1.1/lib/op-open.c This API is repeating the mistake of the old Linux Wireless API. It is putting version checks between kernel and library and this is a maintenance nightmare. Linux API's are not COM. Versioning is a mistake. Use a TLA api like netlink so it can be extensible without version handshake.