From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arne Caspari <arne@datafloater.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Arne Caspari <arnem@informatik.uni-bremen.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:15:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041221171547.GD1459@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C81BF4.9070602@datafloater.de>
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:49:56PM +0100, Arne Caspari wrote:
>
> To make a long decision short:
>
> There is no stable kernel API that an external developer can rely on?
That is correct. Please see Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt for
details as to why this is so.
> And this is by intent: The only way for a vendor to write a driver for
> Linux is to submit it to the kernel tree?
That's the best way. See the above mentioned file for details as to why
it is a benifit for you to submit it to the tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-20 1:53 [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's Adrian Bunk
2004-12-20 2:10 ` Dan Dennedy
2004-12-20 2:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-20 2:42 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-20 4:27 ` Dan Dennedy
2004-12-20 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-20 22:58 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-20 23:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-20 23:21 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-21 0:40 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-21 17:17 ` Greg KH
2004-12-21 17:20 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-21 17:27 ` Greg KH
2004-12-21 22:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-22 14:08 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-20 9:01 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-20 12:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-20 13:20 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-20 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-22 8:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-22 8:57 ` Stefan Richter
2004-12-22 12:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-22 12:21 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-22 16:04 ` Stefan Richter
2004-12-20 14:39 ` Ben Collins
2004-12-20 15:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-20 15:46 ` Ben Collins
2004-12-20 20:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-21 8:33 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-21 12:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-21 12:49 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-21 17:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-12-21 18:51 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-21 18:58 ` Greg KH
2004-12-20 17:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-20 21:05 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-20 21:49 ` girish wadhwani
2004-12-21 8:37 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-21 9:06 ` Bernard Leach
2004-12-21 23:35 ` Pieter Palmers
2004-12-22 0:56 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-21 0:42 ` updated: " Adrian Bunk
2004-12-21 8:46 ` Arne Caspari
2004-12-21 17:13 ` Greg KH
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