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SubjectRe: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions
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??

Humbug..
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