Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261389AbVCCUEX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:04:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262039AbVCCUBN (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:01:13 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:54788 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261961AbVCCT5I (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:57:08 -0500 To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> <20050302172049.72a0037f.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303012707.GK10124@redhat.com> <20050303145846.GA5586@pclin040.win.tue.nl> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:55:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050303145846.GA5586@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (Andries Brouwer's message of "Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:58:46 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 16 Andries Brouwer writes: > API stability: Stable series like 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 try to maintain > the guarantee that user-visible APIs do not change. That goal > has disappeared, meaning that anything might break when one > upgrades from 2.6.14 to 2.6.16. Both 2.4 and 2.6 are IMHO similar. There were API changes in 2.4, and in 2.6 they should be discouraged exactly as in 2.4. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/