Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751937AbXARFKx (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:10:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751939AbXARFKx (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:10:53 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:60763 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751937AbXARFKw (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:10:52 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:from; b=XycXpy7t+Ov22k5WDFRLPIrJDnbTYiactTH3dBrgtwk/NmNy/UycdJwCEATWrd1wOmZ6J1Xosbkr9KUzElPyfQga/UBBvTBhWLr9vRE/Nnhc0d8IeaXG6+aMGYxBd4uwzVCbnlvY7QQUo+WJNsgRj/s/3Bd7GakZzP+9zKXWBaY= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:10:26 +0200 To: Daniel Rodrick Cc: kernelnewbies , Linux Newbie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: after effects of a kernel API change Message-ID: <20070118051026.GA29695@Ahmed> References: <292693080701172015n736a269fl6945ba4fe19d8174@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <292693080701172015n736a269fl6945ba4fe19d8174@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 27 On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:45:04AM +0530, Daniel Rodrick wrote: > Hi list, > > Whenever there is a change in the kernel API (or a new API is > introduced), all of the drivers that use the older API need to be > changed (or recommended to be changed). I believe it is the > responsibility of the person changing the kernel API, to change all > the drivers that have found their way into the kernel code? > > How does this happen? Because the person who brought the change in the > API might not know the internals of all the drivers? > > Is there any way volunteers like me can help in this exercise? See the /APIchanges in the Kernel Janitors TODO list http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo Also: Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish-07.blogspot.com - 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/