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15 Please realize that this article describes the **in kernel** interfaces, not
16 the kernel to userspace interfaces.
41 to worry about the in-kernel interfaces changing. For the majority of
53 So, there are two main topics here, binary kernel interfaces and stable
54 kernel source interfaces. They both depend on each other, but we will
101 Stable Kernel Source Interfaces
110 current interfaces, or figure out a better way to do things. If they do
111 that, they then fix the current interfaces to work better. When they do
117 As a specific examples of this, the in-kernel USB interfaces have
132 which have had to maintain their older USB interfaces over time. This
134 interfaces and do things in improper ways, causing the stability of the
148 number of times this has caused internal kernel interfaces to be
150 happens, all drivers that use the interfaces were also fixed at the
152 come back at some future time accidentally. If the internal interfaces
156 Kernel interfaces are cleaned up over time. If there is no one using a
158 as small as possible, and that all potential interfaces are tested as
159 well as they can be (unused interfaces are pretty much impossible to