Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:36:22 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:46:49AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:14:42PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Gosh! I bought an ATI video card, I bought a VMware license, etc.... I > > > want to keep using them. Changing a "stable" kernel will continuously > > > annoy users and vendors. > > > > So buy some Operating System that supports the propritary software of > > your choice but stop annoying us. > > That's what he did. But it was not written in the notice that it could stop > working at any time :-)
Do you want a long list of message-IDs going way, way back? Ones of Linus' postings saying that there never had been any promise whatsoever of in-kernel interfaces staying unchanged...
For fsck sake, people, give it a rest already. 3rd-party kernel modules are and had always been responsibility of their maintainers, regardless of licensing, commercial status, etc. Exported functions and data structures can and do change; doing out-of-tree development means taking a calculated risk and being ready to follow these changes.
So yes, it *had* been written. Many times. In details. With feeling. - 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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