Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:15:42 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:35:42PM -0600, Tom Tucker wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:49 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
>...
> > No.  That's the wrong question.  What's the real upside?
> 
> Explicitly documenting what comprises the kernel API (external,
> supported) and what comprises the kernel implementation (internal, not
> supported).
>...

There is not, never was, and never will be, any supported external API 
of the kernel.
 
cu
Adrian

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