From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753733Ab0CFRXw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:23:52 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:53822 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751297Ab0CFRXu (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:23:50 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Daniel Stone Cc: David Miller , skeggsb@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:04:34 +0200." <20100305160434.GE2505@tempa> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20100305151754.GB2505@tempa> <20100305.072612.186421758.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305154009.GC2505@tempa> <20100305.074835.159078083.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305160434.GE2505@tempa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1267896078_4049P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:21:18 -0500 Message-ID: <11879.1267896078@localhost> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 128.173.34.103 localhost Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Info: (45) HELO_LOCALHOST X-Junkmail-Status: score=45/50, host=steiner.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020207.4B928F10.0107,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-09-22 00:05:22, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1267896078_4049P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:04:34 +0200, Daniel Stone said: > So you're saying that there's no way to develop any reasonable body of > code for the Linux kernel without committing to keeping your ABI > absolutely rock-solid stable for eternity, no exceptions, ever? Cool, > that worked really well for Xlib. Amen to that. I can remember the X10.4->X11 conversion in 1987. And a heck of a lot of source-level stability since then (even with the libX11 getting redone with libxcb under it. 23 years and still going strong is one hell of a good run for an ABI. --==_Exmh_1267896078_4049P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFLko8OcC3lWbTT17ARAp98AKCGEsV0EPYglJJSpdkT5sODNtid6QCffEYK oH2sKaRr4a/yPoPgmX1rxOg= =n3f9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1267896078_4049P--