Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 00:45:57 EST


Hi.

On Monday 06 February 2006 14:34, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:02 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > (they now have to download extra
> > libraries to use the splashscreen, which were not required with the
> > bootsplash patch, and need to check whether an update to the userui
> > code
> > is required when updating the kernel)
>
> You could have avoided this problem by keeping the userspace<->kernel
> interface stable.

True, but sometimes you need to make changes that do modify the interface.
If the interface involves more functionality, this will happen more
frequently.

Regards,

Nigel
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