Re: [PATCH 1/8] USB: rename USB quirk to USB_QUIRK_ENDPOINT_IGNORE

From: Bastien Nocera
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 07:09:08 EST


On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 12:53 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> A note for future reference, not sure what you mean with driver
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> API here. If you mean the in kernel API, the kernel rules are
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> that we are always free to change that (Linux does not have a
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> stable driver API).
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> So if a header does not sit under include/uapi (indicating that
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> it is an userspace API) then a change like this is fine.

I meant the internal driver API, which might break out-of-tree drivers.
I know that this API is fluid, and that there are no stability
guarantees, but I'd still expect at least a note in the commit message
to that effect.