Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:01:34 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing smbus ABI Message-ID: <4BA6E6D9-B66B-499F-BDCA-34BD98E4A7DB@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20150321122653.3e9a9ece@bsd64.grem.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > On Mar 21, 2015, at 5:26 AM, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: > > I'm planning to change the smbcmd structure in an incompatible way (see > 'man smb' and https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1955?id=4055#inline-12187) in > HEAD. > > I'm not aware of any applications relying on this ABI and adding a > compatibility wrapper later shouldn't be a big deal either. I would > prefer to avoid the additional complexity introduced by such wrapper if > it isn't required anyway. We have compete code for FreeBSD 4.x in the driver now. Don’t know why it was added. IIRC, this interface is used by the X server on some cards to get data from the smbus that’s behind the video chips, which would likely make compat interface almost required. Warner [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVDV2eAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEA1CAP+gIG5dXydFaSRBpqmulSAP2x F9pJU9B8M8AgCJstR3Rwg5qZ4bzryFYcheY9emwf+oi9w0uNKbJW2rhiTAz1suBw EaenGMi8pDzAozE5UsWtZcrSik8WNMdj76XnW2VsXNnVrd90Q7p9Sp8sDjRPZbNC soQtdd9Q2nLHYGeGY/3+78Uwl39fN8BexNC073j36j17hbWQ65Q3PS/KYc+osYZJ d3cdClZJV5hLtma3WfgoU0yLQPo2iTTiKY0wXtVbYq9KRdMSYjS+pufR0gaYnGf9 RenOqEpFDJE4xwsiLa9apPQMVUAm0sYT9toVpNeGh/4DwLpxW37HfNdctdKh/6Y0 6kn1cCI+QgnlShLv7ZepBXBxFRzU1nE68TlM06f8/9VaRMJqoXyrFXqXf7MP7hKI /C4zZRexIOQGeieRupl1PU/QT/i9cL0hPptF+LWjz8OYHs8XM1egQ4Bf7tb/ErL3 isTUHLOB2ckQolQTU0oTreAUheIFenU+X37hAs3sVYZRptQjjOQvjPlf+XSB6dJt S+aNNzJfDy2anhO4W6dNrLzBlRZebi3k5ZzdAAo2BmdVjUEcNMidpjQYihIXVRfp 10Z8SOlAKm/hT5NF6xb0+2CGU+bscWt187Eo14aRw+nJ3BWiT/MsEgIOPhMNY8WR tcGwvN1KiUl/iQRwJCKZ =uzcI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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