Re: Is that an acceptable interface change?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 02:50:20 EST


On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 02:17 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> I'm looking at the changes in the asound.h file, and especially at
> commit 512bbd6a85230f16389f0dd51925472e72fc8a91, and I've been
> wondering if it's acceptable compatibility-wise. All the structures
> passed through ioctl (and ALSA is 100% ioctl) have been renamed from
> sndrv_* to snd_*. That breaks source compatibility but not binary
> compatibility.

only if you are "stupid" enough to use kernel headers in your userspace!
Which you shouldn't do normally

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