Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:46:58 +1100 |
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On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We. Don't. Do. That. > > > > Please either restore the old events so we can have a 6-12 month > > transition period or revert the patch. > > I agree. > > This stupid argument of "HAL is part of the kernel, so we can break it" is > _bogus_. > > The fact is, if changing the kernel breaks user-space, it's a regression. > IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER IT'S IN /sbin/hotplug OR ANYTHING ELSE. If it > was installed by a distribution, it's user-space. If it got installed by > "vmlinux", it's the kernel. > > The only piece of user-space code we ship with the kernel is the system > call trampoline etc that the kernel sets up. THOSE interfaces we can > really change, because it changes with the kernel.
Sanity.
It would be a sad day when no distribution in existence can support the current kernel except for a bleeding edge source based thing upgraded daily.
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