Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 19:24:42 EST


On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:13:15PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:41 -0800,
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> escribi?:
>
> > No, look at the different descriptions that I gave them in the README
> > please. They are very different. If you think the wording there is not
> > precise enough, could you suggest some other wording?
>
>
> Maybe "Developers should not release stable versions of userspace
> applications which depend on "unstable" interfaces, they're only
> good for development versions, if you need to use a "unstable"
> interface for your program you should wait at least until it hits
> "testing" (or even better, "stable")"; or something like that.

So, we will be forcing this scheme onto userspace programmers too? Yeah
right, this isn't Solaris :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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