On 3/23/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 16:47 +0100, Marcel Siegert wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/dvb/version.h.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> NACK
> this header is unreferenced in kernel, but used for applications that compile
for userspace
> to determine the api version.
btw that is something extremely evil to do. Either you have varying apis
between kernels (which is naughty, but I suppose you can go up in
capabilities) or it's fully static.
There are cases where we need an API update since newer systems do show up.
In such a case, the only way is to provide backward compatibility
while adding in newer stuff.
Currently we use the version major/minor for the userspace to identify
the in kernel API, while the userspace apps can remain binary
compatible
Regards,
Manu
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