From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932338AbWB0UN2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:13:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932337AbWB0UN2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:13:28 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.205]:46351 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932338AbWB0UN1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:13:27 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cNiOAfdC6jM+5RAXWwYI1pwfQ3u9M4BqVeZWTYySEkclEhHeswAGV7E7trT+0txD1A5PIIhN5993bYmGR08iCNm/or1HgmVsgEeyrVRR1UHFqG5R0lfJDCZ3jH0krz1G192LEpfg9ayoR/b+pFHaOc5HHDWvEqNOcR1ZwNRJ9g8= Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:13:15 +0100 From: Diego Calleja To: Greg KH Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz, kay.sievers@vrfy.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation Message-Id: <20060227211315.e7a04524.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060227200041.GA11400@suse.de> References: <20060227190150.GA9121@kroah.com> <20060227203520.0df1d548.diegocg@gmail.com> <20060227194941.GD9991@suse.de> <20060227205759.4a7c7c13.diegocg@gmail.com> <20060227200041.GA11400@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:41 -0800, Greg KH escribió: > No, look at the different descriptions that I gave them in the README > please. They are very different. If you think the wording there is not > precise enough, could you suggest some other wording? Maybe "Developers should not release stable versions of userspace applications which depend on "unstable" interfaces, they're only good for development versions, if you need to use a "unstable" interface for your program you should wait at least until it hits "testing" (or even better, "stable")"; or something like that.