On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:49:14PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Or perhaps get rid of that unworkable "version number" thing > (just freeze it in time with the 2.6.35 value returned), > and implement a "get_feature_flags" ioctl or something for going forward. > Then you can just turn on new bits in the flags as new features are added. >
That could be done but I do not expect retire features so far so version is about the same. Plus, what guarantees that someone in the future won't write a utility that compares exact capability bitmap and refuse to work when new ones will be added? -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
