Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030205AbWECNiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 09:38:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030207AbWECNiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 09:38:14 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:35848 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030205AbWECNiN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 09:38:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060503132239.GA5250@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Greg KH , ioe-lkml@rameria.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kyle Moffett , mschwid2@de.ibm.com, Pekka J Enberg X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build V70_M4_01112005 Beta 3NP January 11, 2005 Message-ID: From: Michael Holzheu Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:38:19 +0200 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D12ML061/12/M/IBM(Release 6.53HF654 | July 22, 2005) at 03/05/2006 15:39:22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 30 Hi J?rn, J?rn Engel wrote on 05/03/2006 03:22:39 PM: > On Wed, 3 May 2006 15:18:41 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > > o People are not forced to follow the convention. If they don't and > you break an existing application, you get the blame. Sure, but this is really just a matter of definition. The kernel defines the ABI, right?. User space has to follow the rules. If they break the rules that's badluck for the userspace tools. Currently you can also get kernel information directly from /dev/mem. If an application does that, nobody would say, that we are not allowed to change kernel data structures because of that user space application. > o Now you have a dependency on the standard parser, which is in > userspace. Any bug in any version of the standard parser and... At least this parser should be well tested, if everybody uses it. But maybe I am completely wrong here .... Michael - 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/