Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:11:08 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation |
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:08:18PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 11:01 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As has been noticed recently by a lot of different people, it seems like > > we are breaking the userspace<->kernelspace interface a lot. Well, in > > looking back over time, we always have been doing this, but no one seems > > to notice (proc files changing format and location, netlink library > > bindings, etc.) > > > 2 remarks > > 1) it would make sense to keep track of "removed" interfaces as well
Good idea, removed/ should be where things go to after obsolete so people can find things in the future.
> 2) the per interface description needs a "depends on config option" > field; not all options are always there, but depend on a config option > to be set. It makes a lot of sense to mark these as such so that users > KNOW they have to deal with the interface not being there occasionally, > depending on the kernel.
Hm, almost _everything_ is configurable these days, including sysfs. Do we really want to keep the config value in sync with the kernel config system too? I can add it, but it seems a bit unnecessary.
thanks for the quick feedback.
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