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


Then I suggest you work with the ALSA developers to come up with such a
"stable" api that never changes. They have been working at this for a
number of years, if it was a "simple" problem, it would have been done
already...

Anyway, netlink is in the same category, with a backing userspace
library tie :)

And, I have nothing against shipping userspace libraries with the kernel
like this, if people think that's the easiest way to do it. But even
then, the raw interface is still "private" and you need to use the
library to access it properly.

if it's this volatile, the lib should come with the kernel.


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