From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933564AbXK2WGa (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:06:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762088AbXK2WGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:06:20 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:55723 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761576AbXK2WGT (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:06:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:06:10 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Tobias Powalowski , Takashi Iwai , Christoph Hellwig , Zachary Amsden Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/paravirt: revert exports to restore old behaviour Message-ID: <20071129220610.GK29463@stusta.de> References: <474CA0DA.3010005@goop.org> <20071128204050.GA29463@stusta.de> <474DDA7B.9090802@goop.org> <20071128223909.GE29463@stusta.de> <474E007B.1020405@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474E007B.1020405@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:57:47PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This does not apply since we do not have a stable in-kernel API, and > > therefore changes to the in-kernel API can by definition not be > > regressions. > > > > 2.6.24 most likely contains hundreds of changes and removals of > > in-kernel APIs that existed in 2.6.23. > > > > Are you seriously suggesting that e.g. every single change to any struct > > under include/ [1] would require an announcement x kernel releases > > before it can be implemented? > > Well, no, but that's not the point. >... Sorry if I was a bit harsh, but no change to the in-kernel API [1] could ever be called a regression since we do not have a stable in-kernel API. And what annoyed was that this was one of at least 3 ongoing linux-kernel threads where people tried to bring the notion that any part of the in-kernel API had any kind of stability. > J cu Adrian [1] and that includes what is visible to modules -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed