On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:54:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:43:08 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There's simply no point in treating the removal of exports differently
> > from the many other API breaks we have in each release.
>
> I have repeatedly and relatively patiently explained to you what the
> point is. Simply saying that there isn't one doesn't actually make
> it go away.
Yes, we had this when you insisted on the deprecation period for
sys_open which still brings me to explosion each time such topics come
up and brought you _very_ near at being the first person ever in my
killfile.
I don't get your point why bigger API changes should still be allowed
without any advance warning while removing an export should require
deprecation periods.
If you want to offer a stable API for external modules then please do
it completely and with all consequences.
cu
Adrian
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