From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
Date: 30 Nov 2004 20:57:32 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <or4qj7rllv.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411301413260.22796@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Nov 30, 2004, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Then maybe this is the fundamental problem. As long as the kernel
>> doesn't recognize that an ABI is a contract, rather than an
>> imposition, kernel developers won't care.
> That's a silly analogy. Worse, it's a very flawed analogy.
> If you want to use a legal analogy, the ABI is not a contract, it's a
> public _license_.
I didn't mean to use a legal analogy. I meant contract in the
software engineering sense. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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Thread overview: 185+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-25 15:13 [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ David Howells
2004-11-25 15:23 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-25 16:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-25 18:17 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 3:24 ` Greg KH
2004-11-28 23:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-11-29 1:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-29 4:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-29 4:57 ` Al Viro
2004-11-29 5:27 ` Tim Hockin
2004-11-29 7:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-05 0:49 ` Rob Landley
2004-12-05 2:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-05 13:19 ` David Greaves
2004-12-05 15:57 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-05 23:05 ` Rob Landley
2004-12-06 9:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-29 9:42 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 8:08 ` Alex Riesen
2004-11-30 8:57 ` Alex Riesen
2004-12-01 11:46 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-12-02 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-29 9:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-11-29 9:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-29 10:01 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-29 11:41 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-29 17:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-29 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-29 22:44 ` Al Viro
2004-12-01 11:36 ` Roman Zippel
[not found] ` <oract0thnj.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
2004-11-29 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 0:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30 5:31 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-11-30 6:44 ` bert hubert
2004-11-30 21:22 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 22:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 22:57 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2004-11-30 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 19:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-12-01 19:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-02 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-02 4:28 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-02 5:11 ` Peter Williams
2004-12-02 11:30 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-02 22:17 ` Peter Williams
2004-12-02 9:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-12-02 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-02 21:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-11-30 15:35 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 16:28 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 17:52 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 20:28 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-30 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 22:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-30 22:44 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-30 23:03 ` Al Viro
2004-11-30 23:08 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-12-01 5:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-01 10:52 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-12-01 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-30 23:13 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 23:36 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-01 5:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30 22:48 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-30 22:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 23:09 ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-30 23:35 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-01 0:23 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-11-30 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 23:29 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-03 1:03 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-11-30 23:51 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 17:55 ` Al Viro
2004-11-30 16:33 ` David Howells
2004-11-30 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 15:33 ` David Howells
2004-11-30 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 20:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 21:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 21:39 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 23:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-30 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 22:34 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 23:50 ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 8:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-01 0:24 ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 0:47 ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 1:06 ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01 1:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 6:48 ` BAIN
2004-12-01 2:02 ` cdrom.h (was Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers...) Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-30 22:52 ` [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-30 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 23:05 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 16:18 ` David Howells
2004-12-14 5:51 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-14 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 16:50 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-14 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 21:46 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-14 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 23:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-12-15 0:09 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-16 0:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-12-14 19:23 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-14 19:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-14 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 20:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-14 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 16:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-14 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-27 20:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-25 18:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-25 21:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-25 22:35 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-26 11:42 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-27 0:13 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 0:26 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 0:30 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 0:38 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-26 11:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-26 11:53 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 16:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-11-26 11:58 ` David Howells
2004-11-26 12:00 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-26 14:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-26 14:33 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 12:10 ` Alexander Stohr
2004-11-27 3:46 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-30 12:18 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-29 16:34 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-25 18:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-26 11:52 ` David Howells
2004-11-26 23:56 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-27 1:27 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-27 1:41 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-27 2:03 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-27 3:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-27 4:29 ` Tonnerre
2004-11-27 3:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-27 16:47 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-11-27 17:16 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 22:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-27 23:12 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 23:27 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-11-27 23:32 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 23:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-28 7:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-28 12:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-28 12:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-28 16:34 ` Kevin Puetz
2004-11-28 12:28 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-11-28 12:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-28 16:21 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-11-28 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-27 4:05 ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-27 4:30 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-27 21:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-27 21:11 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 21:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-27 21:49 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 23:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-28 13:24 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-28 13:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-29 11:08 ` David Howells
2004-11-29 20:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30 0:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-30 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-14 7:07 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-27 19:43 Dan Kegel
2004-11-27 21:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
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2004-11-28 0:55 ` ak
2004-11-28 13:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-30 1:43 Jean Tourrilhes
2004-11-30 4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 6:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
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