Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751747AbWB1Bw4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:52:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751607AbWB1Bw4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:52:56 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:1232 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbWB1Bwz (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:52:55 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PBR Streetgang Message-ID: References: <20060227190150.GA9121@kroah.com> <20060227193654.GA12788@kvack.org> <20060227194623.GC9991@suse.de> <20060227234525.GA21694@suse.de> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-065-013-029-145.sip.asm.bellsouth.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 10 greg@kroah.com said: > Ok, I don't mind the name change from something different than > "private". I was looking for something to call the interface between > the user and kernel that almost all userspace programs should be using > the library instead of the "raw" kernel interface. ALSA and netlink are > two examples of this, and I'm sure there's others. well, what about calling it "raw" then? Jason - 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/