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On 5 Jan 2005, at 14:31, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't pretend that kernel interfaces stay written in stone, for
>> ages. What I would like is that, at least, those interfaces were
>> stable enough, let's say for a few months for a stable kernel series,
>> so I don't have to keep bothering my propietary VMWare vendor to fix
>> the problems for me, since the new kernel interface broke VMWare.
>> Yeah, I know I could decide not to upgrade kernels in last instance,
>> but that's not always possible.
>
> You should definitely bother your proprietary vendor all the time,
> they will then
> see more clearly that they have to act fast _if_ they want to stay
> proprietary.

I do bother them, but they try at its best to fix things, and they do.
They are propietary, and neither me nor anyone can force them to change
their minds.

>> If kernel interfaces need to be changed for whatever reason, change
>> them in 2.7, -mm, -ac or whatever tree first, and let the community
>> know beforehand what those changes will be, and be prepared to adapt.
>> Meanwhile, try to leave 2.6 as stable as possible.
>
> Do you follow -mm, -ac, and friends closely? Most changes do happen
> in -mm first.
> So you have time, all the way up to the next release. Use that time
> to bug your
> vendor about the imminent change. There seems to be weeks between
> releases
> now, plenty of time for a vendor to stay up-to-date.

I try to follow -mm releases closely, but as someone said, the
ChangeLog is extremely dense for me to try to understand what's going
on deeply.

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