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

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 11:20:17 EST


Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Even Solaris documents the maturity level of its interfaces, that is all
> I am trying to do here. I'm not trying to pass judgement on the quality
> of any of these interfaces.

So if we go down this path can we make this functional Documentation?

In particular can we have per process/per interface kinds of flags that
allow access to experimental subsystems?

If the developer has to jump through an extra hoop to use an interface
we have clearly documented this is unsupported and will change in the
future. Anything else can be easy to miss.

Eric
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