From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932231AbWFMXnU (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932363AbWFMXnT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:19 -0400 Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:34728 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932231AbWFMXnS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:18 -0400 Message-ID: <448F4D6F.9070601@candelatech.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:42:39 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chase Venters CC: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" , Daniel Phillips , Stephen Hemminger , Sridhar Samudrala , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API References: <1150156562.19929.32.camel@w-sridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060613140716.6af45bec@localhost.localdomain> <20060613052215.B27858@openss7.org> <448F2A49.5020809@google.com> <20060613154031.A6276@openss7.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chase Venters wrote: > At least some of us feel like stable module APIs should be explicitly > discouraged, because we don't want to offer comfort for code that > refuses to live in the tree (since getting said code into the tree is > often a goal). Some of us write modules for specific features that are not wanted in the mainline kernel, even though they are pure GPL. Our life is hard enough with out people setting out to deliberately make things more difficult! Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com