On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:18:36PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> -extern ssize_t parport_device_id (int devnum, char *buffer, size_t len);
> +extern ssize_t parport_get_id (int devnum, char **buf_out);
This is just unnecessary, as well as changing the documented interface
(Documentation/DocBook). This is worse than the autoprobe thing!
Please stop making gratuitous changes to interfaces, or the whole
thing will have to wait until 2.5.x.
> -extern int parport_find_device (const char *mfg, const char *mdl, int from);
> -extern int parport_find_class (parport_device_class cls, int from);
And again we have an interface change.
Adam, to do this now that we are in a stable branch, we have to only
_add_ bits. That means that parport_find_xxx have to stay. The
parport_match_id function is better, but the old functions ought to
still work. Bonus points if they printk a message saying to fix their
callers to use the new function. (There are drivers that are not in
the kernel yet.)
But we can't just outright delete them.
Other than that, the patch looks fine. ;-)
Tim.
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