Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation

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On 3/7/06, Al Boldi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > API design is not rocket science, it just requires effort.
> > >
> > > Agreed.
> > >
> > > However history does show that most people get API design wrong, at
> > > least the first time.
> > >
> > > So the question is can we get good enough at review that we can live
> > > with the few mistakes that make it through?
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > Combined with the fact that we do not have many reviewers (it's a
> > thankless, grumpy job), makes it very hard to make it "good enough"...
>
> There is a secret in creating a successful API; it's called ABSTRACTION.

This is about ABI not API.  There is no API in the kernel.  There _is_ and ABI.

josh
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