On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:30:01PM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 11:51 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:26:01AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > Do we want to keep API/ABI stable over the corresponding RHEL release? > > > > It would be interesting to have a document that described RH's specs > > in this area. E.g. which API/ABI are more important that others. RHEL > > has certainly kept some parts more flexible than others, for example > > wireless API/ABI on almost each kernel update. > > > > It's probably a weighing of pros and cons per case. > > I've asked about this. There aren't any papers/documents written (yet), > but there are supposed to be some tools in the works. I'll work on > finding/getting the people involved to discuss the topic on this list. > I've volunteered to help write a paper on the topic, so it's now a > matter of gathering the technical leadership and confirming the various > positions/answers. We need a RHEL representative/contact whom we will be able to officially ask stuff like the above, to sketch some inside specs and so on, and I think this sounds a lot like it should be you :) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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