Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:00:38 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: 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>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:22:36PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:13:23PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Again, I agree.  People (including Linus) have said they will accept
> > something like include/abi/ (it was a different name last time that I
> > can't remember), but no one has done the work yet...
> 
> Whether or not something is in include/abi/*.h should be a factor in
> classifying it as "stable", "unstable", etc...?

Sure, but lots of our "ABI" is not encoded in header files (think
sysfs), so this will not work for everything.

thanks,

greg k-h
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