From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261742AbULUMAS (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:00:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261743AbULUMAS (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:00:18 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:40465 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261742AbULUMAN (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:00:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:00:12 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Arne Caspari Cc: Alan Cox , Ben Collins , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's Message-ID: <20041221120012.GC5217@stusta.de> References: <20041220015320.GO21288@stusta.de> <41C694E0.8010609@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20041220143901.GD457@phunnypharm.org> <1103555716.29968.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041220154638.GE457@phunnypharm.org> <1103573716.31512.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41C7DFE9.5070604@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C7DFE9.5070604@informatik.uni-bremen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:33:45AM +0100, Arne Caspari wrote: >... > I would take it like in a library: The API should not change between > minor versions - likewise it should be stable in the kernel among all > 2.6.x versions. If it changes to version 2.7.x or 2.8.x it would be OK > since we could release a driver for a 2.8.x tree then. The current development model published by Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton is that there will be no 2.7.x in the forseeable future, but instead the changes that would go into a 2.7 series go into the 2.6 series... > /Arne cu Adrian -- "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. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed