[ltp] [patch 05/11] ibm-acpi: clean up fan_read

[Stefan Schmidt]

--sT0SRK93LqpGW452
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello.

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:41, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>=20
> The patch also changes the userspace ABI to return "status: unavailable" =
when
> neither fan status or fan control are possible.

Change in meaning of extend or in meaining of remove old things and
add new?

Kernel hackers don't like remove old stuff from userspace ABI. Extend
is ok. You only have to make sure that it breaks no userspace
programs even old ones.

regards
Stefan Schmidt

--sT0SRK93LqpGW452
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Digital signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: http://www.datenfreihafen.org/contact.html

iD8DBQFFLXbhbNSsvd31FmURAqF8AKCrIvIHgrRxO4OPW0M8UbO19HFd0gCgww8R
VQ+zOxDHII1IIVPl3Xd55QU=
=Gc2y
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--sT0SRK93LqpGW452--