Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 01:29:21 EST


shdl@xxxxxxxxxx (Heikki Orsila) writes:
>
> +Some complain that kernel interfaces change too often for out-of-the-tree
> +modules, but this claim is false. Changing an interface can be delicate work,
> +and it can take significant amount of developer effort. Therefore, interfaces
> +are not changed without a good reason.

This is actually not correct. Sometimes interfaces are changed
without good reason or the for reasons that turn out to be incorrect.

-Andi
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