Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:27:29 -0700 | From | David KOENIG <> | Subject | Re: sysctl |
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Albert Cahalan wrote: > In the wireless-extensions thread, Linus writes: > >> In general, the answer to "when can we break user space" is very simple. >> >> Never. >> >> It's just not acceptable. We maintain old interfaces for years (and in >> some cases, well over a decade by now), simply because the pain from not >> doing so is horrendous, and it makes debugging impossible. You get into >> situations where users need to upgrade to tools that don't work with >> older >> kernels, and can thus not downgrade, etc etc. > > I guess the sysctl question has been answered then, > especially since random normal apps use sysctl. > > If it needs a maintainer, put me down. > > I think the main problem was fixed long ago, > by assigning fixed numbers to the enum values. > Practically no other kernel code uses an enum > for an ABI, and I think we can see why. > - > 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/ > How about rewriting sysctl so that it refers to the real way (with /proc)? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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