Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:26:37 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
       akpm@osdl.org, davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:13:15PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:41 -0800,
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> escribi?:
> 
> > No, look at the different descriptions that I gave them in the README
> > please.  They are very different.  If you think the wording there is not
> > precise enough, could you suggest some other wording?
> 
> 
> Maybe "Developers should not release stable versions of userspace
> applications which depend on "unstable" interfaces, they're only
> good for development versions, if you need to use a "unstable"
> interface for your program you should wait at least until it hits
> "testing" (or even better, "stable")"; or something like that.

So, we will be forcing this scheme onto userspace programmers too?  Yeah
right, this isn't Solaris :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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