Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764811AbXF1Qja (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759236AbXF1QjX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:39:23 -0400 Received: from hosting.zipcon.net ([209.221.136.3]:44709 "EHLO hosting.zipcon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758948AbXF1QjW (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:39:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4683E433.40000@beezmo.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:39:15 -0700 From: William D Waddington User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Helge Hafting , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Boldi Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 References: <4683983E.5020103@aitel.hist.no> <4683D3B0.1040708@beezmo.com> <20070628173051.4a3422c0@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070628173051.4a3422c0@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hosting.zipcon.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - beezmo.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1346 Lines: 36 Alan Cox wrote: [snip] >> A cleaned-up, consistent, and out-of-tree friendly way of handling API >> changes might help us all. > > The problem is that its very impractical. If I change a kernel API I fix > up the in tree users and test those I can, that's "accepted practice" - > you make mess doing a job you clean it up. I can't do that for out of > tree code because its out of tree. Thanks for the thoughtful reply. _And_ for taking the time to look at the code. I guess my half-assed notion is to have a single file w/"#ifdef-able" entries that flag API changes. It at least would give me/us a single point of reference, and avoid the rather ugly version checking. "LDDx" is fine, and lwn.net has saved my ass more times than I can count, but a single peg on which to hang my out-of-tree hat would seem useful. Thanks again, Bill -- -------------------------------------------- William D Waddington Bainbridge Island, WA, USA william.waddington@beezmo.com -------------------------------------------- "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch - 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/