Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete devfs | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:47:53 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 00:05 schrieb Greg KH: > > That's the point that Oliver and I raised, the "leave it till 2.7" (not > > breaking things for real world users) argument seems stronger than the > > "rip it now" (because it makes things cleaner, easier to code, etc) > > argument. > > The kernel development model (the whole stable/development tree thing) > has changed based on the discussions at the kernel summit yesterday. > See lwn.net for more details. That is why I sent this patch at this > point in time.
Interesting, but we are not talking about an _internal_ API here. It's about blocking the upgrade path. System using a stable kernel will needlessly stop working after an upgrade to another stable kernel.
Regards Oliver
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