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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > > The difference is that closed source OS's rarely change their
> > > > driver interfaces, so it would be extremely unusual for
> > > > something that already works and I have put into production to
> > > > suddenly fail due to an update.
> > > I find this an astonishing assertion. Surely the Linux kernel
> > > interface changes reasonably often?
> >
> > um ... no.  the kernel *internal* interfaces may change, but the
> > interface that is presented to the outside world is very stable.
> >
> > http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
> >
>
> That's fine if you believe that the linux kernel will always include
> every device driver, filesystem, and feature you'll ever want.
> Don't ask me to join you in that leap of faith (or arrogance, or
> whatever it is that makes you think interoperability is
> unnecessary)...

what are you babbling about, les?  all i did was clarify the
distinction between the stability of the *internal* kernel interface
and that of the *external* kernel interface.  i said nothing
whatsoever about driver support or interoperability.

if i were you, i'd switch to decaf.

rday
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