[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] introspect: Fix ABI break introduce by b98a2e1

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

2013/11/4 Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz at gmail.com>:
> +/** Stores extended information about a specific profile of a card. \since 5.0 */
> +typedef struct pa_card_profile_info2 {
> +    const char *name;                   /**< Name of this profile */
> +    const char *description;            /**< Description of this profile */
> +    uint32_t n_sinks;                   /**< Number of sinks this profile would create */
> +    uint32_t n_sources;                 /**< Number of sources this profile would create */
> +    uint32_t priority;                  /**< The higher this value is, the more useful this profile is as a default. */
>      int available;
>      /**< Is this profile available? If this is zero, meaning "unavailable",
>       * then it makes no sense to try to activate this profile. If this is
>       * non-zero, it's still not a guarantee that activating the profile will
>       * result in anything useful, it just means that the server isn't aware of
>       * any reason why the profile would definitely be useless. \since 5.0 */
> -} pa_card_profile_info;
> +} pa_card_profile_info2;

I'd say that at some time in the future we are going to need some new
fields in this structure. I suggest (yes, Microsoft-style, I know) to
add an array of reserved fields to the end of the structure, while it
is not too late. The idea is that these reserved fields can get some
new meaning in the future without changing the struct size and thus
without breaking the ABI each time a new meaningful field is needed.

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Alexander E. Patrakov