Should BusyBox and uClibc also make a "flag version" like Embedded Linux?

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:04:06PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:

> Look: Linux has to deal with binary only modules, which the developers hate.  
> To compensate for this, they go out of their way to avoid having a stable 
> internal API (which could argualy be used as a copyright barrier and thus 
> prevent the modules from being derived works of the Linux kernel to which 
> GPLv2 must apply).  To avoid this, they break internal compatability 
> essentially every release.  They go out of their way _not_ to make forward-
> porting modules easy (otherwise they'd have a checklist each release saying do 
> this this and this, and you'll be up to date).

Pretty much all of this, especially the bit about the motivations behind
the API changes that do occur, is inaccurate.