On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Andreas Bombe wrote:
| One problem with following kernel development is that new APIs are
| nowhere really summarized outside of the list thread where they are
| developed (if there is a thread at all). So maybe there's this great
| new function that simplifies something in your driver, but you don't
| know about it and only stumble across it much later (like 50 dev kernel
| revisions) and wish you'd known earlier.
|
| So someone should just collect the changes and post a summary to
| linux-kernel, now wouldn't that be useful ...
|
| [Silence, far away keyboards can be heard having "So I take it you
| volun..." typed on them.]
|
| ... and I will try to do that for the kernel 2.5 revisions.
|
| I have collected the API changes in 2.5.1 and summarized below. I just
| read the patch for all the *.h files, so I may have confused something
| (like not realizing something just moved instead of being new). I also
| don't know much about most of the areas I'm summarizing, any corrections
| are welcome.
|
| These summaries won't serve as documentation except when it's short and
| simple. If there are big changes, I won't list every detail (I just
| remind you that there is something, you can read the source yourself).
| I will list changes which are global or at least apply to a whole
| subsystem.
|
| You'll also find stuff that's pretty much the talk of the week on
| linux-kernel and therefore well known, but these summaries should also
| serve as a overview ("when was what introduced") in combination with the
| kernel changelogs for those who get into 2.5 later (yes, I will archive
| these summaries on the web when I get a few together).
|
| So, here it goes:
|
| =======================================================================
[snip]
I guess you won't see summaries of proposals or actual changes
in IRC discussions (: , but linux-kernel (mailing list) does have
_some_ of them. For links to the ones that I'm aware of (for
2.5.x), see
http://www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/linux-port-25x.html .
~Randy
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