From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <or4qj7rllv.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411301413260.22796@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Nov 30, 2004, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Then maybe this is the fundamental problem. As long as the kernel
>> doesn't recognize that an ABI is a contract, rather than an
>> imposition, kernel developers won't care.
> That's a silly analogy. Worse, it's a very flawed analogy.
> If you want to use a legal analogy, the ABI is not a contract, it's a
> public _license_.
I didn't mean to use a legal analogy. I meant contract in the
software engineering sense. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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2004-11-25 18:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-29 17:10 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-29 22:28 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-30 21:22 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-30 22:57 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
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2004-12-01 19:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-30 20:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-30 21:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 21:40 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-11-30 23:05 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-12-01 11:48 ` Ralf Baechle
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2004-12-14 16:55 ` Andreas Schwab
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2004-11-30 23:14 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2004-12-14 20:26 ` Andreas Schwab
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