Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 13:07:14 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event |
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On 5/16/2012 1:04 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
agreed.
I would say something like "6 months" (e.g. 3.6); anybody who's likely to update anything will have done the powertop upgrade from his distro by then, and anybody who isn't isn't going to update the kernel either.
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