Possibly offtopic : Binary only driver

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:18:03PM +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
> 2.6.x ? For example, you write a kernel driver for e.g.
> Solaris 9; it will be supported all the livetime of Solaris.

ROTFL. Sorry I can't take that seriously (well not without assuming the life
time of Solaris will be very short). ABI's break, even Microsoft who have 
probably done more than most other vendors to avoid such breakage when it
suited them found that.

Alan