Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:23:37 -0400 | From | "Albert Cahalan" <> | Subject | sysctl |
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In the wireless-extensions thread, Linus writes:
> In general, the answer to "when can we break user space" is very simple. > > Never. > > It's just not acceptable. We maintain old interfaces for years (and in > some cases, well over a decade by now), simply because the pain from not > doing so is horrendous, and it makes debugging impossible. You get into > situations where users need to upgrade to tools that don't work with older > kernels, and can thus not downgrade, etc etc.
I guess the sysctl question has been answered then, especially since random normal apps use sysctl.
If it needs a maintainer, put me down.
I think the main problem was fixed long ago, by assigning fixed numbers to the enum values. Practically no other kernel code uses an enum for an ABI, and I think we can see why. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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