i suspect that if anybody else had asked they might have got a more reasonable
answer
linus gets to call the shots because he wrote the original linux
i have no idea what percentage of the kernel is still "his", but i don't see
any support for a change in the status quo
if i had written a driver i could understand how the change might have pissed
me off - but only for a short while
it seems fairly obvious to me why the structure was changed, well in principal
if not in this case
the idea that all structures can only be added to at the end is something that
is a bad rut to get yourself into
it leads to crappy and bloated coding in the name of "backwards compatability"
reasonable amounts of backwards compability is good, but one NULL is not going
to kill anyone.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html