On Tue Oct 26 10:32:15 EDT 2010, r...@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
