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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Hack inc." <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is that an acceptable interface change?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:23:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440C6FF9.80300@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490603060755r55b3584bpf0a16451a57925b5@mail.gmail.com>

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> Userspace apps should not include kernel headers, period.
> So, userspace applications really shouldn't care.

Yeah, but doesn't changing the names like this just make more work for 
the guys that sanitize the kernel headers and have to stay 
source-compatible with previous versions?

I mean, we shouldn't make extra work for other projects just for fun...

Chris

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06  1:17 Is that an acceptable interface change? Olivier Galibert
2006-03-06  7:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 15:50   ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-06 15:55     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 16:15       ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-06 16:20         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 16:25         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-06 17:00         ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-06 17:23       ` Christopher Friesen [this message]

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