On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 09:03:10PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:52:37PM -0500, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > Actually, Greg, a hell of a lot of people that don't track linux kernel > > development do think that way. And there are always going to be people that > > think that way. > > So why would to more sentances trying to say "see, we really do know > what we are doing, we aren't idiots" make things any better to these > people? (hint, it wouldn't...)
I have similar experience as Daniel.. It seems we need to say that because I have heard some people complain about the lack of stable interfaces. In fact, I wrote the original patch just after one person blamed Linux for not having stable interfaces, and that Linux people just change those APIs to be mean for third parties (which is obviously false). > The whole article explains why apis are change for very good reasons > (evolution of hardware, security, we now know better, etc.) That's the > whole point of the document... ... And the new paragraph supports that goal by assuring others that we don't do unnecessary changes. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" http://www.iki.fi/shd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
