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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	akpm@osdl.org, davej@redhat.com, perex@suse.cz,
	kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:26:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060228002637.GA23195@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060227211315.e7a04524.diegocg@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:13:15PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:41 -0800,
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> escribi?:
> 
> > No, look at the different descriptions that I gave them in the README
> > please.  They are very different.  If you think the wording there is not
> > precise enough, could you suggest some other wording?
> 
> 
> Maybe "Developers should not release stable versions of userspace
> applications which depend on "unstable" interfaces, they're only
> good for development versions, if you need to use a "unstable"
> interface for your program you should wait at least until it hits
> "testing" (or even better, "stable")"; or something like that.

So, we will be forcing this scheme onto userspace programmers too?  Yeah
right, this isn't Solaris :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28  0:26 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 [this message]
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
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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