Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:54:20 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: RFC: what's in a stable series? |
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:06:16PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Does it mean, no API changes except for security (or similarly severe) bugs?
Do that, and we will stagnate.
> Does it mean, no userland ABI changes, but API changes affecting onto > the kernel are ok?
That sounds acceptable to me.
But maybe I'm just biased, as I'm looking to start backporting some of the USB 2.5 changes to 2.4 to fix real bugs that are in 2.4. This will require changing kernel apis. And in doing so, fixing up all of the in-kernel usages of that api will happen.
In doing this, it just enforces the fact that it really matters if you have a in-kernel driver or not. If you want to keep a driver or any other kernel code outside of the main tree, it is costly, both in time and effort.
My .02
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