On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > The difference is that closed source OS's rarely change their > > driver interfaces, so it would be extremely unusual for something > > that already works and I have put into production to suddenly fail > > due to an update. > > I find this an astonishing assertion. Surely the Linux kernel > interface changes reasonably often? um ... no. the kernel *internal* interfaces may change, but the interface that is presented to the outside world is very stable. http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
