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Message-ID: <CAJAp7Oj-O+s7V1KjpFm-UWOP6ecCWoBzXZnHhLuC8E3_Wu3ksg@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:44:38 -0700 From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@...o.se> To: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, "patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com" <patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, r.baldyga@...sung.com, Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, sojka@...ica.cz, stern@...land.harvard.edu, peter.chen@...escale.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, device-mainlining@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Device-mainlining] [PATCH v4 1/5] gadget: Introduce the notifier functions On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Felipe Balbi via device-mainlining <device-mainlining@...ts.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: [..] > The real difficulty here is coming up with an interface which we're agreeing to > supporting for the next 30 years. Whatever that is, as soon as it gets exposed > to userland, we will have to support it. > Isn't this the main reason for not creating a user space ABI now? Running with the in-kernel hooks would allow us to get things working now, we can change it as we wish, we can explore the difficulties and we can create an ABI from that - if we need to - that might have a chance to work for the next 30 years. Regards, Bjorn -- 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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