Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 18:05:18 EST
On Nov 30, 2004, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> 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.
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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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