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1ABI stable symbols
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4Documents the interfaces that the developer has defined to be stable.
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6Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces with no
7restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will be guaranteed
8for at least 2 years.
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10Most interfaces (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always
11be available.
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13.. kernel-abi:: ABI/stable
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