Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:10:50 +0100
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> Then I suggest you work with the ALSA developers to come up with such a
> "stable" api that never changes.  They have been working at this for a
> number of years, if it was a "simple" problem, it would have been done
> already...
> 
> Anyway, netlink is in the same category, with a backing userspace
> library tie :)
> 
> And, I have nothing against shipping userspace libraries with the kernel
> like this, if people think that's the easiest way to do it.  But even
> then, the raw interface is still "private" and you need to use the
> library to access it properly.

if it's this volatile, the lib should come with the kernel.


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