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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] USB: rename USB quirk to USB_QUIRK_ENDPOINT_IGNORE
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Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:08:53 +0200
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On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 12:53 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> A note for future reference, not sure what you mean with driver
> 
> API here. If you mean the in kernel API, the kernel rules are
> 
> that we are always free to change that (Linux does not have a
> 
> stable driver API).
> 
> 
> 
> So if a header does not sit under include/uapi (indicating that
> 
> it is an userspace API) then a change like this is fine.

I meant the internal driver API, which might break out-of-tree drivers.
I know that this API is fluid, and that there are no stability
guarantees, but I'd still expect at least a note in the commit message
to that effect.