From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754703Ab0CEQGK (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:06:10 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34116 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752455Ab0CEQGH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:06:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:06:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100305.080626.09630724.davem@davemloft.net> To: daniel@fooishbar.org Cc: skeggsb@gmail.com, airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 3 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100305160434.GE2505@tempa> References: <20100305154009.GC2505@tempa> <20100305.074835.159078083.davem@davemloft.net> <20100305160434.GE2505@tempa> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Daniel Stone Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:04:34 +0200 > So you're saying that there's no way to develop any reasonable body of > code for the Linux kernel without committing to keeping your ABI > absolutely rock-solid stable for eternity, no exceptions, ever? Cool, > that worked really well for Xlib. read() still works the same way it did 30 years ago last time I checked.