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To: shdl@zakalwe.fi (Heikki Orsila)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:28:53 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20080128230959.AA1A32BC98@zakalwe.fi> (Heikki Orsila's message of "Tue\, 29 Jan 2008 01\:09\:59 +0200 \(EET\)")
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shdl@zakalwe.fi (Heikki Orsila) writes:
>  
> +Some complain that kernel interfaces change too often for out-of-the-tree
> +modules, but this claim is false. Changing an interface can be delicate work,
> +and it can take significant amount of developer effort. Therefore, interfaces
> +are not changed without a good reason.

This is actually not correct. Sometimes interfaces are changed
without good reason or the for reasons that turn out to be incorrect.

-Andi