From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:04:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060227210427.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602271216340.22647@g5.osdl.org>
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:20:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> They seem to be just excuses for bad habits. And the notion of a "private"
> interface is insane anyway, since it doesn't matter - the only thing that
> matters is whether it breaks existing binaries or not, and being "private"
> in no way makes any difference to that. If you need to compile or link
> against a new library, it's broken - whether it was "private" or not makes
> no difference.
gregkh is being polite - s/private/but-we-are-special/ and it will make
more sense...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 19:01 [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation Greg KH
2006-02-27 19:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 19:11 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 19:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 19:22 ` Kumar Gala
2006-02-27 19:30 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-27 19:44 ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 13:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-03-01 14:10 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-03-01 14:35 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-01 16:30 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-02-27 20:06 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-27 19:35 ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-27 19:49 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 19:57 ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-27 20:00 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:13 ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-28 0:26 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 19:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-27 19:46 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-27 20:13 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:22 ` John W. Linville
2006-02-27 22:00 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 22:58 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-02-27 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-27 21:04 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-02-27 23:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-02-27 23:45 ` Greg KH
2006-02-28 1:52 ` Jason Lunz
2006-02-28 6:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-28 6:41 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-01 0:34 ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 1:17 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-03-02 4:24 ` Greg KH
2006-03-05 16:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-05 23:23 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 0:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-06 0:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 2:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-07 3:56 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 19:52 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-27 19:57 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:05 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-27 20:12 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:15 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 22:56 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-02-28 0:11 ` Greg KH
2006-02-27 20:01 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-01 0:21 ` Greg KH
2006-02-28 11:39 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-03-01 0:23 ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 7:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-01 20:56 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-07 14:44 Al Boldi
2006-03-07 15:21 ` Josh Boyer
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