From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: shdl@zakalwe.fi (Heikki Orsila)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:28:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73k5lt6t7e.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080128230959.AA1A32BC98@zakalwe.fi> (Heikki Orsila's message of "Tue\, 29 Jan 2008 01\:09\:59 +0200 \(EET\)")
shdl@zakalwe.fi (Heikki Orsila) writes:
>
> +Some complain that kernel interfaces change too often for out-of-the-tree
> +modules, but this claim is false. Changing an interface can be delicate work,
> +and it can take significant amount of developer effort. Therefore, interfaces
> +are not changed without a good reason.
This is actually not correct. Sometimes interfaces are changed
without good reason or the for reasons that turn out to be incorrect.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 23:09 [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt Heikki Orsila
2008-01-28 23:14 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-01-29 4:48 ` Greg KH
2008-01-29 10:40 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-01-29 13:15 ` Greg KH
2008-01-29 14:14 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-01-30 19:32 ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-30 19:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-29 6:28 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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