Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269016AbTGJHi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:38:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269017AbTGJHi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:38:56 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:24077 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269016AbTGJHiy (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:38:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:53:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik , LKML , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: RFC: what's in a stable series? Message-ID: <20030710085332.B28672@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , LKML , Marcelo Tosatti References: <3F0CBC08.1060201@pobox.com> <20030710033409.GA1498@www.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030710033409.GA1498@www.13thfloor.at>; from herbert@13thfloor.at on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:34:09AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 14 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:34:09AM +0200, Herbert P?tzl wrote: > In my opinion (and you requested input *g*), the > kernel userland API can be changed as much as is > required to improve/stabilize/bugfix the kernel, > unless this change breaks something in userland > without an already available update/upgrade/etc ... Changing the kernel/userland API and ABI is totally out of question - we _really_ can't do that. This is about inkernel APIs for modules. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/