Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751698AbWB0VEi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:04:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751642AbWB0VEi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:04:38 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:49069 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751181AbWB0VEh (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:04:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:04:27 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg KH , Benjamin LaHaise , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz, Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation Message-ID: <20060227210427.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20060227190150.GA9121@kroah.com> <20060227193654.GA12788@kvack.org> <20060227194623.GC9991@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 15 On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:20:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > They seem to be just excuses for bad habits. And the notion of a "private" > interface is insane anyway, since it doesn't matter - the only thing that > matters is whether it breaks existing binaries or not, and being "private" > in no way makes any difference to that. If you need to compile or link > against a new library, it's broken - whether it was "private" or not makes > no difference. gregkh is being polite - s/private/but-we-are-special/ and it will make more sense... - 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/