On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:45:04AM +0530, Daniel Rodrick wrote: > Hi list, > > Whenever there is a change in the kernel API (or a new API is > introduced), all of the drivers that use the older API need to be > changed (or recommended to be changed). I believe it is the > responsibility of the person changing the kernel API, to change all > the drivers that have found their way into the kernel code? > > How does this happen? Because the person who brought the change in the > API might not know the internals of all the drivers? > > Is there any way volunteers like me can help in this exercise? See the /APIchanges in the Kernel Janitors TODO list http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo Also: Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish-07.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
