Re: The most insane proposal in regard to the Linux kernel development
From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Apr 04 2016 - 17:25:15 EST
On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 05:43:47PM +0500, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> 1) Yeah, I know, you all hate that, but stable APIs and ABIs must be
> introduced and supported for, let's say, at least three to five
> years.
"Must"? Whatever for?
> One very big justification of this proposal is that core Linux
> development (I'm talking about various subsystems like mm/ ipc/ and
> interfaces under block/ fs/ security/ sound/ etc. ) has slowed down
> significantly over the past years so radical changes which warrant
> new kernel API/ABI are less likely to be introduced.
Has it?
> Please, share your opinion.
Your mail setup is a disgrace - it has managed to delay your AFD posting
until the next evening.