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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, <perex@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:41 pm

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:15:56AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:

But there is no API stability for external modules this way.

It simply doesn't make sense to give the few sys_open() abusers even 
more grace period while changes to the IRQ API affecting nearly everyone 
are allowed without any requirements of ensuring API stability.

I'm not a fan of API stability for external modules, but if API 
stability was considered important it should be done consequently and 
not only for some patches that have the bad fate of having to go through 
Andrew to Linus.


cu
Adrian

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[-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 4:25 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Sep 9, 4:39 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, David Miller, (Mon Sep 10, 8:18 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Sep 18, 10:10 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 10, 8:21 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Sun Sep 9, 5:59 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 10, 5:08 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 5:23 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 10, 11:14 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Dave Jones, (Tue Sep 25, 5:17 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Al Viro, (Mon Sep 10, 8:43 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 1:25 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 3:58 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 4:17 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 6:18 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 6:15 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 6:41 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 6:56 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Alan Cox, (Mon Sep 10, 1:44 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 1:54 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Greg KH, (Thu Sep 13, 7:23 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Alan Cox, (Mon Sep 10, 8:31 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 8:03 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 6:22 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Sep 9, 6:41 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 7:18 pm)