Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932185AbWB0TwH (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:52:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932084AbWB0TwH (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:52:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:24082 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932091AbWB0TwC (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:52:02 -0500 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:52:08 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz, gregkh@suse.de, Kay Sievers References: <20060227190150.GA9121@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060227190150.GA9121@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602271952.08949.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 31 On Monday 27 February 2006 19:01, Greg KH wrote: [snip] > + > +Interfaces in the testing state can move to the stable state when the > +developers feel they are finished. They can not be removed from the > +kernel tree without going through the obsolete state first. > + > +It's up to the developer to place their interface in the category they > +wish for it to start out in. > --- /dev/null > +++ gregkh-2.6/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs > @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ > +What: devfs > +Date: July 2005 > +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman [snip] July 2005? Either this date is wrong or the document is out of date. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - 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/