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Message-Id: <20100314.150818.124884915.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:08:18 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: joe@...ches.com Cc: ajitk@...verengines.com, ajitkhaparde@...il.com, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h: Add "structs are public" disclaimer comment From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:17:58 -0700 > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 18:11 -0800, David Miller wrote: >> For the millionth time, you cannot change these datastructures >> like this without breaking all existing userspace applications >> out there. > > Maybe this might help reduce the broken record repetitiveness. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> That's rediculious. Just about every single file in include/linux/foo.h has similar stuff. And we already have a way to document this, the fact that a header file appears in include/linux/Kbuild shows that it provides userland interfaces. And your comment wouldn't help this person at all, they _KNEW_ it changed userspace, because in the very next patch they patch the userland tool to change the datastructures too! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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