Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 13:04:22 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event |
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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > Seriously though. What's your take on changing the kernel that will > break an older distro. Obviously, this change is too early to apply. But > because an old distro has one app that will break if we make a change in > the kernel, is that enough to keep that change out?
I suspect that powertop is enough of a developer thing that if that's the only thing that breaks, we don't have to worry too much.
I don't want to break *everybody*, so new distro's should be up-to-date. But breaking something like a F14-15 timeframe distro or something staid like a SLES (or "Debian Stale" or whatever they call that thing that only takes crazy-old binaries)? It's fine. We don't want to *rush* into it, but no, if those distros are basically not updating, we can't care about them forever for something like powertop.
Things that break *normal* applications are different. There the rule really must be "never".
Linus
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