On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:04:06PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > Look: Linux has to deal with binary only modules, which the developers hate. > To compensate for this, they go out of their way to avoid having a stable > internal API (which could argualy be used as a copyright barrier and thus > prevent the modules from being derived works of the Linux kernel to which > GPLv2 must apply). To avoid this, they break internal compatability > essentially every release. They go out of their way _not_ to make forward- > porting modules easy (otherwise they'd have a checklist each release saying > do > this this and this, and you'll be up to date).
Pretty much all of this, especially the bit about the motivations behind the API changes that do occur, is inaccurate. _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
