On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:41:34AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
On 9/8/20 9:35 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:39:13AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
It's absolutely 100% compatible by design. I was planning to update the kernel uapi header to align changes, but the volume of code is much lower on the alsa-lib side. Will resubmit with the preferred provider/consumer wording.
It's binary compatible but it'd break the build for any existing code using the UAPI headers.
Sorry, I don't fully get the comment. Aren't the uapi headers copied into each software tree that relies on them?
Yes, it's just a question of how disruptive an update ends up being for people - if hardly anyone is using it and they know about the change it probably doesn't matter that much.