Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation

Greg KH
2006-02-27T23:27:39Z

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:22:36PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:13:23PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Again, I agree. People (including Linus) have said they will accept
> > something like include/abi/ (it was a different name last time that I
> > can't remember), but no one has done the work yet...
>
> Whether or not something is in include/abi/*.h should be a factor in
> classifying it as "stable", "unstable", etc...?

Sure, but lots of our "ABI" is not encoded in header files (think
sysfs), so this will not work for everything.

thanks,

greg k-h