Messages in this thread | | | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 | Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:23:06 +0100 |
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On 4 Jan 2005, at 07:36, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:46:49AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:14:42PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>>> Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, >>>> etc.... I >>>> want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will >>>> continuously >>>> annoy users and vendors. >>> >>> So buy some Operating System that supports the propritary software of >>> your choice but stop annoying us. >> >> That's what he did. But it was not written in the notice that it >> could stop >> working at any time :-) > > Do you want a long list of message-IDs going way, way back? Ones of > Linus' > postings saying that there never had been any promise whatsoever of > in-kernel > interfaces staying unchanged...
I don't pretend that kernel interfaces stay written in stone, for ages. What I would like is that, at least, those interfaces were stable enough, let's say for a few months for a stable kernel series, so I don't have to keep bothering my propietary VMWare vendor to fix the problems for me, since the new kernel interface broke VMWare. Yeah, I know I could decide not to upgrade kernels in last instance, but that's not always possible.
If kernel interfaces need to be changed for whatever reason, change them in 2.7, -mm, -ac or whatever tree first, and let the community know beforehand what those changes will be, and be prepared to adapt. Meanwhile, try to leave 2.6 as stable as possible.
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