On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Mike Isely wrote: > > Backwards compatibility is very important and thus any kind of new > interface deserves a lot of forethought to ensure that choices are made > in the present that people will regret in the future. Making an "in the present that people will NOT (!!) regret in the future." Holy cow, what a typo... :-) -Mike > interface self-describing is one way that helps with compatibility: if > the app can discover on its own how to use the interface then it can > adapt to interface changes in the future. I think a lot of people get > their brains so wrapped around the "ioctl-way" of doing things and then > they try to map that concept into a sysfs-like (or debugfs-like) > abstraction that they don't see how to naturally take advantage of what > is possible there. > > -Mike > > -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
