From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760896AbXK1CaS (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:30:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760106AbXK1C3n (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:29:43 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:41083 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754708AbXK1C3j (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:29:39 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Tom Tucker Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:27:49 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: Roland Dreier , Andi Kleen , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org References: <20071122343.446909000@suse.de> <200711271549.37670.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1196141742.9876.49.camel@trinity.ogc.int> In-Reply-To: <1196141742.9876.49.camel@trinity.ogc.int> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711281227.50136.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 27 November 2007 16:35:42 Tom Tucker wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:49 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Explicitly documenting what comprises the kernel API (external, > supported) and what comprises the kernel implementation (internal, not > supported). But the former is currently an empty set. > - making it obvious to developers when they are binding their > implementation to a particular kernel release See, there's your problem. All interfaces can, and will, change. You're always binding yourself to a particular release. So you're not proposing we mark what's not stable, you're arguing that we create a subset which is stable. That's an argument we're not (yet) having. Cheers, Rusty.