From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [ANN] WiMAX stack and drivers for Intel WiMAX Link 5050 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:04:03 -0500 Message-ID: <20080408140403.3e7191bb@speedy> References: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: wimax-BPSAo7wm5JOHVYUYWc+uSQ@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200804011107.38563.inaky-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html