From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: William D Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCLUE3] flagging kernel interface changes
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:05:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455BB95E.8090600@serpentine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455B96C7.8010202@beezmo.com>
William D Waddington wrote:
> The other part of the question is why this irq_handler prototype change
> in 2.6.19 isn't flagged to make things a little easier.
For in-tree drivers, it broke the compilation of any drivers that relied
upon it, and they were then fixed, and most of the fixing occurred
before the changes made it into any widely used tree. That
break-it-and-fix-it approach is typically seen as flagging enough. If
your driver isn't in-tree, it's invisible to kernel maintainers.
For out-of-tree drivers, your best bet is to follow Jonathan Corbet's
notes on LWN. He's pretty good about describing impending widespread
breakage before it hits the main tree.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-16 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 22:14 [RFCLUE3] flagging kernel interface changes William D Waddington
2006-11-15 22:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-15 22:37 ` William D Waddington
2006-11-16 1:05 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2006-11-15 23:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-21 19:15 ` William D Waddington
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