Re: [PATCH] iio: Move IIO Dummy Driver out of staging

From	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] iio: Move IIO Dummy Driver out of staging
Date	2015-10-13 13:00 +0200
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On 10/13/2015 07:44 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12 October 2015 18:59:57 BST, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> +static unsigned instances = 1;
>>>> +module_param(instances, uint, 0);
>>
>> One concern about this. We will still create a default number of
>> 'instances'
>> when using configuration via configfs?
>>
>> I'm not sure we can remove this parameter once the module is moved
>> out of staging, since we break the ABI (?)
> I'm not that bothered about ABI breakage on this one. Not going to break anything
> real after all!

ABI gets only broken if there is somebody to complain about it ;)

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Re: [PATCH] iio: Move IIO Dummy Driver out of staging Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com> - 2015-10-12 20:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] iio: Move IIO Dummy Driver out of staging Jonathan Cameron <jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] iio: Move IIO Dummy Driver out of staging Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2015-10-13 13:00 +0200

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