On 01/11/2016 07:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-01-11, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 01:42:44PM -0800, Peter Hurley wrote: >> >>> This will break out-of-tree drivers but I don't really see a >>> realistic alternative. Also, I think the new symbol prefix ASY_ isn't >>> great and I'd like to get some suggestions. >> >> Don't worry about breaking out-of-tree drivers, that's fine. > > One request from this maintainer of several out-of-tree drivers: if > you break something, break it such that it won't compile. It would be > nice to avoid changes that break functionality but still compile > without warning. I was in the process of writing how I can't remove ASYNC_INITIALIZED, et.al from the uapi header, when I realized that I can just guard them with #ifndef _KERNEL_ which will trigger the requisite out-of-tree build break. Regards, Peter Hurley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
