From: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:24:11 +0000
> Changing the function prototype will a PITA for anyone doing back-ports of > fixes. > (And more so for anyone trying to get a driver to build against kernels > that might have this change back-ported.) As someone who actually does such backports every week or two for up to 5 different -stable releases, I really don't find it to be a big deal, and I've therefore developed a very low level of sympathy for this argument so please don't make it as a reason to not make an interface change. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
