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Marchesi" , Beau Belgrave , Jens Remus , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules Message-ID: References: <20250709212556.32777-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20250709212556.32777-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20250711065742.00d6668b@gandalf.local.home> <2025071124-cola-slouching-9dd2@gregkh> <20250711100239.55434108@gandalf.local.home> <6871537ec0461_1d3d100c6@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6871537ec0461_1d3d100c6@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 11:10:06AM -0700, dan.j.williams@intel.com wrote: > It is odd to read this claimed benefit when viewing it from the wider > Linux kernel project. Upstream maintenance of ABI contracts is the > fundamental struggle of subsystems. The request, "can we get the kernel > out of the way and maintain our own ABI to our users?" is a consistent > refrain, and it consistently receives a qualified "no" for regression, > security, and other interface evolution concerns. Exactly.