Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:04:27 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation |
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:20:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > They seem to be just excuses for bad habits. And the notion of a "private" > interface is insane anyway, since it doesn't matter - the only thing that > matters is whether it breaks existing binaries or not, and being "private" > in no way makes any difference to that. If you need to compile or link > against a new library, it's broken - whether it was "private" or not makes > no difference.
gregkh is being polite - s/private/but-we-are-special/ and it will make more sense... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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