Re: Binary drivers

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 18:20:49 -0500

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.

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