linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api

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Message-ID: <p73k5lt6t7e.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:28:53 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	shdl@...alwe.fi (Heikki Orsila)
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

shdl@...alwe.fi (Heikki Orsila) writes:
>  
> +Some complain that kernel interfaces change too often for out-of-the-tree
> +modules, but this claim is false. Changing an interface can be delicate work,
> +and it can take significant amount of developer effort. Therefore, interfaces
> +are not changed without a good reason.

This is actually not correct. Sometimes interfaces are changed
without good reason or the for reasons that turn out to be incorrect.

-Andi
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