Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:59 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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On 2005-12-05T14:30:09, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> Actually I would be happy with the stability of this series if people > would stop trying to take working features OUT of it!
Features are removed when they are no longer features, but design irritations in a new and improved design, and usually, equivalent or better (or at least thought to be) functionality is available still in the big picture (which includes user-space), hopefully in a cleaner place.
Now, design is often a holy war, and people disagree. That's fine and to be expected. And sometimes, the whole solution takes a while to materialize and be implemented from the kernel up to all user-space and even longer until it has been implemented in the brains of the admins. This, too, is fine and expected. It's called "innovation" and "development", sometimes iterative.
> working all that well in any case. But if existing features suddenly > drop out from beneath the user, then you will find people doing what you > mentioned, staying with old kernels with holes rather than moving to > kernels which are simply no longer functional.
You're assuming the kernel is both "static" design-wise as well as independent (or at least basically eternally backwards compatible) from user-space. Both assumptions are no longer true. Get over it.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée
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