On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
> The difference is that closed source OS's rarely change their
> driver interfaces, so it would be extremely unusual for something
> that already works and I have put into production to suddenly fail
> due to an update.
I find this an astonishing assertion. Surely the Linux kernel
interface changes reasonably often?
um ... no. the kernel *internal* interfaces may change, but the
interface that is presented to the outside world is very stable.
http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
rday
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