On 2013.05.17 09:46, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> but that'd mean changing the API...
>
> Right, which as we learned with the MaxPower is a complete no no,

Not really. The only thing I learned is that we'll have to wait a bit 
longer for people to reach enlightenment about this whole API breakage 
bullshit. As a matter of fact, some unlikely people have already made a 
first step towards that [1]... ;)

> I rather dislike the extra ctx parameter too, so I've implemented the
> proposed libusb_get_port_numbers and libusb_get_port_path is now a wrapper
> around it.

Thanks. I would have sent a patch too, but I wanted to make sure there 
weren't any major objections. Less work for me!

> As said before the intention is to leave libusb_get_port_path
> around in the 1.0.x series for both ABI and API backward compat reasons.

Yeah. Alas people are not yet ready to be unplugged from the stable 
API/ABI Matrix illusion...

Regards,

/Pete

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt


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