Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:14:56 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read} |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:23:24 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> I would like to see "everyone" explain what we lose by giving > developers a bit of warning before we break their stuff.
here's the skinny: 99% of the external module developers won't notice until they're gone, even with the warning. And that's an optimistic estimate. Warnings don't work for this.
All this kind of thing buys us is an excuse so that we can say "but we warned you for 3 months". It doesn't actually change anything else.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic in my assumption that external open module writers don't actually follow mainline closely; and maybe part of me would love for them to follow it closer, so close that they would even consider submitting their driver for it. But sadly from experience... warnings dont' work. Only when things break hard people notice. - 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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