Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux drivers management | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:18:55 -0700 |
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linux@horizon.com writes:
> The Linux developers are quite opposed to that, for a variety of excellent > reasons I won't bother enumerating. Linus has said he'll (grudgingly) > allow it, but won't lift a finger to help. Linux development sailed > away from the idea of a stable binary interface years ago, and isn't > looking back.
Almost true. There is a stable binary interface to user space, and work is done to maintain that interface.
I just thought I would mention it because too frequently people get the policy on the in-kernel api and the ABI to user space confused.
In general the user space ABI is only appended to.
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