From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: kangur@polcom.net, mmazur@kernel.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:00:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yiclby8.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040306171535.5cbf2494.pj@sgi.com> (Paul Jackson's message of "Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:15:35 -0800")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-08 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-29 18:42 Mariusz Mazur
2004-02-29 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-29 20:30 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-02-29 21:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-29 21:21 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-02-29 21:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-01 14:42 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-01 18:10 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-03 12:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-03 15:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-03 16:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-04 16:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-04 18:49 ` [Linuxabi] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-04 4:43 ` [Linuxabi] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-03 18:08 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Mariusz Mazur
2004-03-03 19:20 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-03-04 14:13 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-04 20:49 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-03-04 21:27 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-04 22:52 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-03-04 23:32 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-05 17:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-05 23:44 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-03-06 22:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-07 1:15 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-07 19:00 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2004-03-08 1:28 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-08 15:03 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-08 15:37 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-08 20:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-02-29 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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