Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> ...
>> This brings up a few potential questions:
>>
>> - Will this eventually be necessary to an absolute? Will 100M
>> tarballs and hundreds of thousands of drivers be unmanageable in a
>> tight, ABI-unstable monolith 10 years from now?
>
> "hundreds of thousands of drivers" won't happen during my lifetime.
>
> If the kernel size only doubles to 100 MB that's no problem.
>
>> - Would it ACTUALLY be worthwhile, given such a scenario, to expel
>> drivers out of the tree to glue on by a static, somewhat slower but
>> workable ABI so nobody has to touch the code ever?
>
> Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt describes why this is nonsense.
>
stable api is even nonsense for Windows, which tries to have a stable
api for drivers. For example, manufacturers are having to write Vista
specific drivers, because their old Windows XP drivers don't work on
Vista. E.g. Creative sound cards.
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