From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261809AbULURRH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:17:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261810AbULURRH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:17:07 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:5013 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261809AbULURRF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:17:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:15:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arne Caspari Cc: Adrian Bunk , Arne Caspari , 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: <20041221171547.GD1459@kroah.com> 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> <20041221120012.GC5217@stusta.de> <41C81BF4.9070602@datafloater.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C81BF4.9070602@datafloater.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:49:56PM +0100, Arne Caspari wrote: > > To make a long decision short: > > There is no stable kernel API that an external developer can rely on? That is correct. Please see Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt for details as to why this is so. > And this is by intent: The only way for a vendor to write a driver for > Linux is to submit it to the kernel tree? That's the best way. See the above mentioned file for details as to why it is a benifit for you to submit it to the tree. thanks, greg k-h