On Tuesday 19 April 2011, Tony Olech wrote: > What is wrong in wanting to support non-technical users? > Especially since there are no backward compatible issues > involved at all. It's good to support non-technical users. Things that are bad about your patch are: * Have interfaces that work only for your customers. If a specific interface is a good thing to have, it certainly is good to have it for everyone. * Fragmentation between drivers. In addition, if someone else needs a similar interface and introduces it in another driver, we can end up with incompatible ways of getting the same information, which is an absolute support nightmare for people that want to support all users. * Not following the interface standards. You don't get to make the decision which interfaces are helpful and which ones are not, they have to be agreed upon. The files you were suggesting violate the rules about how they should look like, in particular having one value per file. Doing something else is very confusing to users that have reasonable expectations about the contents. So even though you had the intentions to make support easier for some people, you end up with a situation that makes it harder to support for everyone. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
