From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 22 9:43:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1933A37B404 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0MHjmG90245; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:45:48 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Cameron Grant , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newpcm/kobj MFC Message-ID: <20010122094548.A90200@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <003401c0833c$39ac3f40$1004020a@darkstar> <20010121153904.B74751@citusc17.usc.edu> <200101220104.f0M142O04580@whizzo.transsys.com> <001b01c0840f$b30ea070$1004020a@darkstar> <200101220139.f0M1d1O05133@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101220139.f0M1d1O05133@whizzo.transsys.com>; from louie@TransSys.COM on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:39:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:39:01PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > to the best of my knowledge, there exist 5 drivers not in the tree now,= all > > of which have kobjified versions available and 4 of which will be enter= ing > > the tree soon. i know of no commercial newpcm drivers. >=20 > Well, there you go. Is changing an unused API an incompatability? I'm not going to make a huge fuss over this, but I think it doesn't help the cause to get acceptance from vendors if every few months a maintainer of a part of the tree were to decide to break binary compatability in an exported API in the -stable branch "just this once". Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6bHHMWry0BWjoQKURAjCHAKCkmhFh5I4SzdB2c4CpIK0Bos4zlACg3Wbd 3pO7mi7tJOdmPcIZaAp/btY= =0r+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message