From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] kw audio -- /dev/audio and friends
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:49:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <737fcdbbcbb4a54f4f796ff2d8656c90@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimqQvvzzU+6=N3xhfcNd=2_hNvw+o7rqgBkMfoX@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue Oct 26 10:32:15 EDT 2010, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> Changing a device's file format in a backwards-incompatible way
> is not something to be done lightly. In addition to changing all
> drivers you'd have to change every user program that reads from
> or writes to them, even ones that you don't know exist.
great point. this thinking should be applied to changing even
simpler interfaces, like the uart one.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 14:06 Tristan Plumb
2010-10-26 14:31 ` Russ Cox
2010-10-26 14:49 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-10-27 12:30 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-27 12:50 ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-27 13:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-27 14:15 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-27 18:58 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-10-27 20:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-10-27 21:05 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-28 0:11 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-28 3:01 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-10-28 7:53 ` yy
2010-10-28 12:38 ` Tristan Plumb
2010-10-28 13:07 ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-28 13:26 ` Tristan Plumb
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