On 2/16/06, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Even if there were an established ABI that the upstream kernel maintained, > there would still be incompatibilities between versions. > > Look at any OS that maintains such an illusion for proof of this. > Every time a vendor has done this, there's been some internal struct > or function that wasn't exported, that 3rd parties wanted to poke > around with, which inevitably does completely the wrong thing when > things are changed. I don't know, I think CTOS came pretty close to wide spread compatibility. But I suppose being too compatible is not great either. -- WC Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
