Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752147AbWCFHwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:52:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752164AbWCFHwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:52:53 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:29659 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147AbWCFHww (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:52:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Is that an acceptable interface change? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Olivier Galibert Cc: "Hack inc." In-Reply-To: <20060306011757.GA21649@dspnet.fr.eu.org> References: <20060306011757.GA21649@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:52:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1141631568.4084.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 16 On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 02:17 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > I'm looking at the changes in the asound.h file, and especially at > commit 512bbd6a85230f16389f0dd51925472e72fc8a91, and I've been > wondering if it's acceptable compatibility-wise. All the structures > passed through ioctl (and ALSA is 100% ioctl) have been renamed from > sndrv_* to snd_*. That breaks source compatibility but not binary > compatibility. only if you are "stupid" enough to use kernel headers in your userspace! Which you shouldn't do normally - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/