| Subject | Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:40:15 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 02:09, 4Front Technologies wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am writing this message to bring a huge problem to light. SuSE has been systematically > forking the linux kernel and shipping all kinds of modifications and still call their > kernels 2.6.5 (for example).
internal kernel apis change and are fair game. As a RH kernel maintainer I can guarantee you that you will suffer too from internal kernel changes in RH/Fedora kernels. Or from changes within the 2.6.x series. Linux needs such changes to allow faster and cleaner development. The cost is on the external modules; it has a good side too, it provides an incentive for external modules to merge into the kernel so that they get fixed automatic. Having such incentives is in my opinion a good thing.
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