Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 25 May 2002, Keith Whitwell wrote: > >>Linus, as this constitues a defacto release of code it's probably good to know >>about it when this happens... >> >>It's not a problem, but it does mark a point at which the new interfaces >>become public, and it's happened in a different order than the normally >>circuitous DRI release plan (dri-branch-->dri-trunk-->xfree-->kernel--> >>redhat-->user). Not that that's a bad thing as the card usually eols about >>halfway through that... >> > > Note that the development tree often has new interfaces that change over > time, so people should _not_ feel too bound to be binary compatible. In > fact, just the other day the new "fast mutex" primitives in 2.5.x got > updated to totally different semantics that allowed for much a wider > variety of behaviour. > > It's when something gets close to a stable release (either backwards or > forwards) that binary competibility becomes an issue. Exactly like with > XFree86 itself.
OK, fair enough. There weren't any binary-incompatible changes planned or forseen for the new code on the branch in any case - I've just gotten lazy about finishing that development cycle off & getting it onto the trunk. Keith _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
