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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 09:31:12PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > On Saturday 03 December 2005 11:53, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:17:41PM +0000, David Ranson wrote: > > > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > >udev ;) > > > > > > > >http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Dec/0180.html > > > > > > Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one > > > userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more? > > > > - support for ipfwadm and ipchains was removed during 2.6 > > - devfs support was removed during 2.6 > > - removal of kernel support for pcmcia-cs is pending > > - ip{,6}_queue removal is pending > > - removal of the RAW driver is pending > > So what you're upset about is the feature removal scheduling mechanism, which > usually gives a full year's warning, and the removal patch can be reversed > into a feature addition patch you can maintain outside the tree if you really > care? I'm not upset about is the feature removal scheduling mechanism. Please check who has most entries in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt ... The removal of features within the 2.6 series is an essential part of the current development model. The problem is the lack of a long-living relatively stable series within the development model. > Rob cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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