If you need to keep the platform interface library, then the kernel needs to keep supporting it. If you can't break ABI or API, then you're merely shuffling the

If you need to keep the platform interface library, then the kernel needs to keep supporting it. If you can't break ABI or API, then you're merely shuffling the pain point, not solving it. The solution is to just tell people to update their code. Or accept that some bad APIs will be baked in for eternity, and deal with it.