Re: [libgpiod][PATCH 00/14] treewide: start shaving off cruft for v2.0

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:30 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 09:38:44AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 2:55 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:23:01PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > The following series removes a lot of interfaces that were deemed overkill
> > > > in libgpiod and the removal of which was suggested to me before proceeding
> > > > with the new API.
> > > >
> > > > This leaves a couple holes in the library but we'll follow them up with
> > > > more improvements all over the tree. We'll create a new object called
> > > > gpiod_request for dealing with line requests of arbitrary size. We'll
> > > > probably remove the the bulk objects from bindings and eventually we'll
> > > > switch to using the v2 kernel uAPI.
> > > >
> > > > Andy - a note for you: I know you're always very thorough in your reviews
> > > > but in this case let's consider this series preparing a construction zone
> > > > for the new API. Please don't nitpick too much. :)
> > >
> > > I don't know what you are talking about. The series looks nice, esp. taking
> > > into account statistics! FWIW,
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > One side note, though. Are you already plan to support autotools-2.70?
> > >
> >
> > Isn't it already supported? 2.69 is the minimum version, 2.70 should just work.
>
> Have you read an article on LWN about changes [1]? There are a lot of
> incompatibilities (note between 2.69 and 2.70 _8_ years passed).
>
> [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/839395/
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>

How will distros handle the incompatibilities? I don't think all
projects - many no longer even supported - will suddenly switch to new
autoconf.

Bartosz