Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:26:37 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation |
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:13:15PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:41 -0800, > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> escribi?: > > > No, look at the different descriptions that I gave them in the README > > please. They are very different. If you think the wording there is not > > precise enough, could you suggest some other wording? > > > Maybe "Developers should not release stable versions of userspace > applications which depend on "unstable" interfaces, they're only > good for development versions, if you need to use a "unstable" > interface for your program you should wait at least until it hits > "testing" (or even better, "stable")"; or something like that.
So, we will be forcing this scheme onto userspace programmers too? Yeah right, this isn't Solaris :)
thanks,
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