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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:04:46 +0400 From: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@...il.com> To: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: "Marcel Siegert" <mws@...uxtv.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] DVB: Delete unused header file linux/dvb/version.h. On 3/23/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> 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 <rpjday@...dspring.com> > > > > > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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