Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:48:56 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
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Subject: Re: Oops report for the week preceding June 16th, 2008
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:43:02PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, it would be good if there were a way to include 
> unstable APIs in the mainline kernel so that they could get some exposure 
> before they're set in stone, and that would also eliminate that reason for 
> keeping drivers out so long.

That's exactly what the documentation in Documentation/ABI is there for.
Document your "experimental" API, along with any userspace programs that
are using it, and work to try to finalize it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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