Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Binary drivers | Date | Thu, 09 Dec 1999 18:20:49 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <7B50B2D99EADD311A46E009027D608A00176E6@STPEX>, Bret Indrelee writes : +----- | struct vmoperations_struct btp_vm_ops = { | bt_vmopen, bt_vmclose, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, bt_vmnopage, NULL, NULL, | NULL }; | | Change the order of elements so that the nopage operator is the third | element rather than the 7th element and the source breaks. Hopefully you had +--->8
Good point. There are other ways to pull it off, however.
| > (stable) release where the new interface first shows up, and | > then *remove* | > it at the next major release. | | I think you mean remove it in the next development release. If it was in 2.2 +--->8
I had an implicit assumption that third-party (open source or not) drivers are expected to break against unstable releases anyway; I was addressing only the stable releases.
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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