From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Franco Sensei <senseiwa@tin.it>
Cc: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:01:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050414200101.GC3628@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425E9FE2.6090102@tin.it>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:52:50AM -0500, Franco Sensei wrote:
>...
> An advantage is the total freedom about the code. Ok, I know. But as
> long as the kernel grows, in size and in its use, something more should
> be considered. ABI is a step forward companies and people like me in
> handling linux easily. API and data structure stability should be
> something in mind, since breaking compatibility from 2.6.8 to 2.6.8.1
> causes big troubles to anyone who's mantaining many machines. And if you
>...
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
ABI stability requires API stability [1].
cu
Adrian
[1] you can break the API without breaking the ABI, but these are
mostly pathological examples
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-14 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-08 18:08 [INFO] Kernel strict versioning Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-08 19:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-12 1:02 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-12 1:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-12 2:54 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-12 11:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-04-12 17:22 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-12 18:03 ` David Lang
2005-04-14 16:52 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-14 17:57 ` David Lang
2005-04-14 19:41 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-14 19:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-14 22:33 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-14 23:29 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <425F33C2.8020301@tin.it>
2005-04-15 5:02 ` Al Viro
2005-04-14 20:01 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-04-14 22:51 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-14 20:34 ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-14 22:45 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-12 22:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-04-14 17:04 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-12 22:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-14 17:40 ` Franco "Sensei"
2005-04-14 20:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-14 22:26 ` Franco "Sensei"
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[not found] ` <3SxGA-5mR-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-12 21:52 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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