Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API

Theodore Tso
2006-06-14T10:36:41Z

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:53:19PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote:
> > It is the lack of an ABI that is most frustrating to these users.
>
> And the presence of an ABI would be _very_ frustrating to core
> developers. Not only would these people suffer, everyone would --
> developer time would be wasted dealing with cruft, and forward
> progress would be slowed.

Note that just because an interface is EXPORT_SYMBOL doesn't mean that
the interface is guaranteed to be stable. So folks who are aruging
that an interface shouldn't be usable by non-GPL applications because
we are therefore guaranteeing a stable API are making an unwarranted
assumption.

- Ted