Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0 | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:00:15 +0100 |
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> writes:
>> Changing kernel config should never change the API. > > Linux would be in pretty sad shape if that held. > > Incompatible API changes should be rare, but they are an essential part > of our continuing healthy evolution. In particular, there's a _long_ > list of hardware devices that have at some time or other worked on > Linux, but don't anymore - usually because no one is still maintaining > the driver needed. But sometimes other API's have to change or > disappear as well.
You're talking about the kernel development while I meant changing kernel configuration. They're very distant things.
And note that it's all about C API and not about some API between different parts of the kernel. -- Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH - 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/
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