On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Hmm, I thought Documentation/ABI/ was supposed to tell us what's an > ABI you can depend on and what's not. I mean, you shouldn't be > depending on anything but the interfaces documented in > Documentation/ABI/stable/, no? Who is the f*cking MORON that thinks that "documentation" has any meaning what-so-ever? The fact that something is documented (whether correctly or not) has absolutely _zero_ impact on anything at all. What makes something an ABI is that it's useful and available. The only way something isn't an ABI is by _explicitly_ making sure that it's not available even by mistake in a stable form for binary use. Example: kernel internal data structures and function calls. We make sure that you simply _cannot_ make a binary that works across kernel versions. That is the only way for an ABI to not form. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
