From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:44:09 +0300
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> > > API design is not rocket science, it just requires effort.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > However history does show that most people get API design wrong, at
> > least the first time.
> > 
> > So the question is can we get good enough at review that we can live
> > with the few mistakes that make it through?
>
> Exactly.
> 
> Combined with the fact that we do not have many reviewers (it's a
> thankless, grumpy job), makes it very hard to make it "good enough"...

There is a secret in creating a successful API; it's called ABSTRACTION.

ABSTRACTION is a piece of cake, if supported by an intricate knowledge of the 
subject involved.

--
Al

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