From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: RFC: what's in a stable series?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:53:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030710085332.B28672@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030710033409.GA1498@www.13thfloor.at>; from herbert@13thfloor.at on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:34:09AM +0200
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:34:09AM +0200, Herbert Pötzl wrote:
> In my opinion (and you requested input *g*), the
> kernel userland API can be changed as much as is
> required to improve/stabilize/bugfix the kernel,
> unless this change breaks something in userland
> without an already available update/upgrade/etc ...
Changing the kernel/userland API and ABI is totally out of question -
we _really_ can't do that. This is about inkernel APIs for modules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-10 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-10 1:06 RFC: what's in a stable series? Jeff Garzik
2003-07-10 1:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-10 3:34 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-10 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-07-10 11:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 12:36 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-10 3:54 ` Greg KH
2003-07-10 3:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-10 4:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-10 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 8:25 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-10 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 11:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 12:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-10 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 15:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 19:00 ` Jan Kara
2003-07-11 8:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-11 9:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-10 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-10 15:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
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