>David> The current big-kernel-tarball approach
>David> encourages kernel API drift (since some developers are
>David> indifferent or oblivious to the impact of changes on things
>David> that are not in the kernel tree) and version skew between what
>David> is in the kernel tree and what is in our driver development
>David> trees.
>
>API's have to change sometimes for various reasons, this is how the
>Linux kernel development model works. Fortunately Linus is not afraid
>of braking the API if some serious bug is found that cannot be fixed
>without breaking the old API.
Name one.
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david parsons \bi/ Not overwhelming impressed with the ``it's too high
\/ performance to code properly'' argument.
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