From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [patch 08/10] bcm43xx: sysfs code cleanup Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:30:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200604200030.10218.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200604190405.k3J457Zj008004@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <200604200005.01087.mb@bu3sch.de> <20060419221757.GA29110@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2674630.GUO9ivQP68"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, akpm@osdl.org Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:8885 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbWDSW0I (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:26:08 -0400 To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20060419221757.GA29110@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart2674630.GUO9ivQP68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 20 April 2006 00:17, you wrote: > Michael Buesch : > [...] > > the deleted code parses binary input. The > > new code parses human readable hex input. >=20 > No offence intended but it was not clear from the description of > the patch. >=20 > > Does it imply an user space visible API change ? > Yes it does, but: * We did not release a stable kernel with it in the meantime. * There is no software using it at the moment. (Well, the bcm43xx-sprom tool is kind of using it, but it can handle both binary and hex input anyway) =2D-=20 Greetings Michael. --nextPart2674630.GUO9ivQP68 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBERrnylb09HEdWDKgRAiRGAKCnxXXwHYkmD5ZT8xifanMyX2inAgCgpW5Q FfSQ1vPqX/P8RCGYG214IRI= =mvcv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2674630.GUO9ivQP68--