Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:27:49 +1100 |
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On Tuesday 27 November 2007 16:35:42 Tom Tucker wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:49 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Explicitly documenting what comprises the kernel API (external, > supported) and what comprises the kernel implementation (internal, not > supported).
But the former is currently an empty set.
> - making it obvious to developers when they are binding their > implementation to a particular kernel release
See, there's your problem. All interfaces can, and will, change. You're always binding yourself to a particular release.
So you're not proposing we mark what's not stable, you're arguing that we create a subset which is stable.
That's an argument we're not (yet) having.
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