From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261349AbULUTD4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:03:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261253AbULUTCb (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:02:31 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:25540 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261301AbULUS6R (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:58:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:58:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arne Caspari Cc: Arne Caspari , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ieee1394_core.c: remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's Message-ID: <20041221185801.GA8784@kroah.com> References: <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> <20041221171547.GD1459@kroah.com> <41C87099.9040108@datafloater.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C87099.9040108@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 07:51:05PM +0100, Arne Caspari wrote: > Greg KH schrieb: > >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. > > There is no such file in the 2.6.9 release :-( It's in 2.6.10-rc3, and available online at: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html thanks, greg k-h