Return-path: Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([80.91.229.8]:41876 "EHLO hugh.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752406AbYDIGhH (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 02:37:07 -0400 Received: from public by hugh.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JjTWR-0007nR-7P for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:11:03 +0200 To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Cc: Stephen Hemminger , public-wimax-BPSAo7wm5JOHVYUYWc+uSQ@hugh.gmane.org, public-linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@hugh.gmane.org, public-netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@hugh.gmane.org, public-linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@hugh.gmane.org Subject: Re: [ANN] WiMAX stack and drivers for Intel WiMAX Link 5050 From: Andi Kleen References: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> <20080408135601.5dad3566@speedy> <200804081359.03611.inaky@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:10:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200804081359.03611.inaky@linux.intel.com> (Inaky Perez-Gonzalez's message of "Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:59:03 -0700") Message-ID: <871w5fpnhs.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (sfid-20080409_073719_499270_42759C5D) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez writes: > > There is almost no inlining because each X only does stuff from itself. If > there is a need for inlined stuff (I missed it) it should go to one of the > header files --internal or external. Inlining gets more and more discouraged. Also longer term I would expect that gcc will do inlining over files anyways (it already supports that, but needs special support in the Makefiles which the kernel doesn't have). So even with inlining you wouldn't need to merge files or move code into headers. > version: I anticipate the wimax API exported to user space is > going to undergo a lot of changes while we all agree on what > is the best interface. Because things might break, I want to > make sure user space stuff can detect that and fail cleanly. > Hence the versioning. It's still a bad way to do that (I agree with Stephen on that). Was also always a mess on wireless. If you don't want expandable TLAs another better alternative to versions is ext2 style compatible/incompatible feature bitmaps. -Andi