Rob Landley wrote: > They keep using the fact that they're exporting random kernel data as an > excuse for not documenting a stable subset of this as an API userspace can > rely on. At least sysfs-rules.txt is a start, although it contains more Don'ts than Dos. ... > This is a bug, not a feature. Linux has always had a > stable _USERSPACE_ API. This is exposed to userspace, and userspace is > expected to be able to use this. If they're exporting stuff they shouldn't > be exporting, then they should stop exporting it. The kernel log is exported to userspace too. (Ugh, there were actually suggestions to make the log stable too, e.g. to tack stable unique identifiers to log messages...) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--- ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
