Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261369AbVDNT4x (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:56:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261395AbVDNT4x (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:56:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58301 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261369AbVDNT4a (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:56:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Sensei Cc: David Lang , Krzysztof Halasa , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <425EC778.4070009@tin.it> References: <4256C89C.4090207@tin.it> <20050408190500.GF15688@stusta.de> <425B1E3F.5080202@tin.it> <20050412015018.GA3828@stusta.de> <425B3864.8050401@tin.it> <425C03D6.2070107@tin.it> <425E9FE2.6090102@tin.it> <425EC778.4070009@tin.it> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LrOBg594+Ori9c/IY08C" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:55:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1113508514.6293.82.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 39 --=-LrOBg594+Ori9c/IY08C Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I'd like API stability, if API stability is=20 > achieved, ABI is there. this is a joke right? If you really think this you have no idea what ABI stability means and how extremely hard it is to even sort of remotely approach it. Trust me. It's *extremely* hard to impossible. Several security fixes can only be fixed this way. And it's REALLY fragile even if for other fixes. And I am very glad that the linux kernel people in general decide to not go for abi stability, the hacks that would be needed would be so obscene and the gains very very minimal. (it's open source, you have the source after all!) --=-LrOBg594+Ori9c/IY08C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCXsqhpv2rCoFn+CIRAu42AJ9hDLzHjCyEwD9YJmZg+/u2zm1oDgCfZ6Ge Ttgl4PgwwGYiaFAIXSOc8M0= =bjWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LrOBg594+Ori9c/IY08C-- - 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/