On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:54:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Interfaces can be created and destroyed - they do not affect overall > > system design in anyway (well, if they do, something is broken). > > I'm sorry, but you've obviously never maintained any piece of software > that actually has users.
Strong. But saying for others usualy tends to show own problems. > As long as you think that interfaces can change, this discussion is > pointless. That is too cool phrase to be heared - if you will make me a favour and reread what was written you will (hopefully) detect that there were no words about interfaces being changed after put into the wild - talk was only about time when system is designed and implemented, and there is time for discussion about its rough edges - if its design is good, then interface can be changed in a moment without any problem - that is what we see with syslets right now - they are designed and implemented (the formed was done several years ago), and it is time to shape its edges - like change userspace API - it is easy, but you do not (want/like to) see that. > So go away, ponder things. But my above words are too lame for self-hearing Olympus liver. Definitely. > Linus -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/