Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:06:39 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation |
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On 27 Feb 2006 20:31:28 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > As has been noticed recently by a lot of different people, it seems like > > we are breaking the userspace<->kernelspace interface a lot. Well, in > > looking back over time, we always have been doing this, but no one seems > > to notice (proc files changing format and location, netlink library > > bindings, etc.) > > Ok, but how do you plan to address the basic practical problem? > People cannot freely upgrade/downgrade kernels anymore since udev/hal > are used widely in distributions. >
Just a datapoint: My distribution (Slackware) uses udev (but not hal) and I move between lots of different 2.6.x kernels and even 2.4.x kernels without problems.
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