Re: [PATCH v7 5/6] iio: ABI: Add partial quaternion modifier

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2026 22:27:26 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 07, 2026 at 01:03:12PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 16:35:39 -0600
> > David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > > On 3/4/26 2:07 AM, Francesco Lavra wrote:  
> 
> ...
> 
> > Whilst I can see the argument, I'm not keen on more punctuation in the filenames.
> > May well trip up someone's parser.  For now squashing the spaces is probably
> > the best option.
> > 
> > This made me spot a major issue though. We can only add to end of these
> > enums, not the middle!  
> 
> So, if not yet, we need to have a patch that adds a big fat note/warning about
> this on top of the enum(s).

To me that would basically say 'oh look this is a uapi header, you can't
change anything'. I guess we have a few proof points that people don't
actually realise that so maybe you are right.