Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:36:05 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API |
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:53:19PM -0500, Chase Venters wrote: > > It is the lack of an ABI that is most frustrating to these users. > > And the presence of an ABI would be _very_ frustrating to core > developers. Not only would these people suffer, everyone would -- > developer time would be wasted dealing with cruft, and forward > progress would be slowed.
Note that just because an interface is EXPORT_SYMBOL doesn't mean that the interface is guaranteed to be stable. So folks who are aruging that an interface shouldn't be usable by non-GPL applications because we are therefore guaranteeing a stable API are making an unwarranted assumption.
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