Re: Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition

[Andre Hedrick]

Gee Jamie:

Maybe if you would or could read past comments in the thread, you'd catch
a clue, but let me quote myself from a few days back.

"Point, the API is being documented, sometimes not as timely as desired."

Clearly this acknowledges the API is a snapshot in time which is
published.  My past experience (now discounted by all) has observed, Linus
does not change, tries very hard to avoid changing, the kernel API during
a kernel series minor revsion number.

I think I will use one of my favorite viro quotes that I gotten many times
over the years.

"Sod Off!"

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > So this is the third release to publish the documented API to the writing
> > kernel level device drivers?
> 
> I guess not: it's a guide (a good one), but not an exact reference,
> due to the fact that the API changes from version to version, and that
> the kernel API is not required to match the documentation.
> 
> -- Jamie
> 


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