To: linux@horizon.com
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Subject: Re: Linux drivers management
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:18:55 -0700
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linux@horizon.com writes:

> The Linux developers are quite opposed to that, for a variety of excellent
> reasons I won't bother enumerating.  Linus has said he'll (grudgingly)
> allow it, but won't lift a finger to help.  Linux development sailed
> away from the idea of a stable binary interface years ago, and isn't
> looking back.

Almost true.  There is a stable binary interface to user space,
and work is done to maintain that interface.

I just thought I would mention it because too frequently people
get the policy on the in-kernel api and the ABI to user space
confused.

In general the user space ABI is only appended to.

Eric
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