Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's

Arne Caspari
2004-12-21T12:49:54Z

Adrian Bunk schrieb:

>On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:33:45AM +0100, Arne Caspari wrote:
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>>...
>>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.
>>
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>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...
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>

To make a long decision short:

There is no stable kernel API that an external developer can rely on?
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?

/Arne