On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Sakari, > > On Thursday 01 September 2011 13:06:12 Sakari Ailus wrote:
[snip] > > That's my understanding, but of course someone could just say "no" when we > > try to do that. I think that if something is marked experimental at least > > the argument that it can't be changed is a little bit moot since the users > > have been notified of this beforehand. > > > > There are a few examples of this. At least the V4L2 subdev and MC > > interfaces are marked experimental. However, we haven't actually tried to > > use that to make changes which might break user space since we haven't got > > a need to. > > > > Hans, Laurent: do you have an opinion on this? > > We should of course try to keep the API and ABI compatible across kernel > versions, but experimental APIs can be changed. It also depends on how widely > the API has been picked up by userspace and how much the changes would break > it. Being experimental isn't an excuse for making userspace's life a > nightmare. Right, they deserve it regardless;-) Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
