Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:15:19 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions |
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Kay Sievers wrote: > > HAL is tightly bound to the kernel and this will countinuously happen in > the future too, cause we can't solve the problem that you don't know how > an interface works without a user and if you don't put it in the kernel you > certainly don't have a user.
The usual approach is to overlap the old/new interfaces, so that userspace continues to work. After a few kernel revisions, then nuke the old interface.
What, you say, you're replacing an existing userspace API in-situ, rather than creating a new one??
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