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2.6 and the user-space ABI

2.6 and the user-space ABI

Posted May 26, 2007 15:08 UTC (Sat) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: 2.6 and the user-space ABI by sdalley
Parent article: 2.6 and the user-space ABI

Yes. However, the number of incompatible changes could be reduced even more by out-of-kernel-tree stuff never accessing sysfs directly, but always through the kernel-lib. If such an application want something that is available through sysfs, but not the kernel-lib, then one could add an appropriate ABI to the kernel-lib, and that ABI is probably easier to keep stable than sysfs.


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