Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> writes:

>> Changing kernel config should never change the API.
>
> Linux would be in pretty sad shape if that held.
>
> Incompatible API changes should be rare, but they are an essential part
> of our continuing healthy evolution.  In particular, there's a _long_
> list of hardware devices that have at some time or other worked on
> Linux, but don't anymore - usually because no one is still maintaining
> the driver needed.  But sometimes other API's have to change or
> disappear as well.

You're talking about the kernel development while I meant changing
kernel configuration. They're very distant things.

And note that it's all about C API and not about some API between
different parts of the kernel.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
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