On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2011 22:18:28 Timur Tabi wrote: > > Ok, I was really hoping to avoid doing this. Like I said, binary compatibility > > is important, and changing the type will break my existing apps. Are you > > insisting that I pick a new number? > I definitely insist that you have a proper interface in the driver at the > time that it gets merged, and that probably includes a collision-free > ioctl code. This sort of stuff is one of the issues that should be being factored in to any decision not to publish and submit the kernel code - ABIs that haven't been reviewed upstream may well have this sort of issue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
