Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning
From: Franco \"Sensei\"
Date: Thu Apr 14 2005 - 17:55:53 EST
Adrian Bunk wrote:
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
ABI stability requires API stability [1].
Of course it requires API stability... as I said ``API and data
structure stability should be something in mind''. I really meant that
API shouldn't change suddenly. And from the moment in which API are
stable, still having even different implementations, *then* (not before)
probably ABI can be taken in consideration.
[1] you can break the API without breaking the ABI, but these are
mostly pathological examples
I don't want to even think about an incredible coincidence of having a
_working_ ABI with different API... different function calls, different
data structures, different behaviors, and still working in binary mode...
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