On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:41:34AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > On 9/8/20 9:35 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:39:13AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > > > It's absolutely 100% compatible by design. > > > I was planning to update the kernel uapi header to align changes, but the > > > volume of code is much lower on the alsa-lib side. Will resubmit with the > > > preferred provider/consumer wording. > > It's binary compatible but it'd break the build for any existing code > > using the UAPI headers. > Sorry, I don't fully get the comment. Aren't the uapi headers copied into > each software tree that relies on them? Yes, it's just a question of how disruptive an update ends up being for people - if hardly anyone is using it and they know about the change it probably doesn't matter that much.
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