On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:27:27PM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:
Quoting Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>:
Linus would yell at the glib folks and say "you exported it, you have to keep it". Thus, argume with upstream and/or do c).
Ah, this must be why any driver ever written never needs to be rewritten... right. Err: did I miss something?
Yes, drivers are internal to the kernel. The interface to userland is however not broken.
Yes, I agree.. the ABI break is bad... API break in the kernel is a daily business though.
No, it absolutely is forbidden to break the USER - KERNEL ABI. And yes, the external ABI of glib is similar. You will need a new major version of the library if you change an interface binary incompatible. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org