Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | 30 Nov 2004 20:57:32 -0200 |
| |
On Nov 30, 2004, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Then maybe this is the fundamental problem. As long as the kernel >> doesn't recognize that an ABI is a contract, rather than an >> imposition, kernel developers won't care.
> That's a silly analogy. Worse, it's a very flawed analogy.
> If you want to use a legal analogy, the ABI is not a contract, it's a > public _license_.
I didn't mean to use a legal analogy. I meant contract in the software engineering sense. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
-- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |