* Florian Weimer: > My gut feeling is that it's safer to add new interfaces, based on the > actual kernel/userspace interface, rather than trying to fix up existing > interfaces with symbol versioning. The main reason is that code > involving serial interfaces is difficult to test, so it will take years > until we find the last application broken by the glibc interface bump. > > I don't feel strongly about this. This came out of a request for > enabling TCGETS2 support downstream. If I can't fix this upstream, I > will just reject that request. Any further comments on this matter? Thanks, Florian
