On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2011 22:18:28 Timur Tabi wrote:
> > Ok, I was really hoping to avoid doing this. Like I said, binary > > compatibility > > is important, and changing the type will break my existing apps. Are you > > insisting that I pick a new number? > I definitely insist that you have a proper interface in the driver at the > time that it gets merged, and that probably includes a collision-free > ioctl code. This sort of stuff is one of the issues that should be being factored in to any decision not to publish and submit the kernel code - ABIs that haven't been reviewed upstream may well have this sort of issue. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
