On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:28:07PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > And we really complained about it! The oprofile thing should be fixed, > > btw, and yeah,if udev breaks any more, I'll have to stop taking patches > > from Greg. That thing has been a disaster, and everybody involved should > > be ashamed and now hopefully *very* aware of the fact that we don't break > > user-level interfaces. > > > > (Right now, I suspect we may have a loop setup regression. Not sure) > > While I'm all for keeping things relatively stable and not asking the > user to constantly upgrade user-space, I believe that we just can't > promise to never break user-level interfaces while keeping the > development pace we have right now. We can promise to grant people > significant delay before we drop compatibility options, but "forever" > doesn't scale.
never with a loong deprecations period. At least for APIs that are not private to a single obscure driver. But this would require people actually beeing aware of creating ABIs, and maybe someone with half a clue reviewing them. Which of course is not the case today, thanks to ioctls, procfs, sysfs, debugfs and co people can create userspace ABIs without a single though easily, and they happily do it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
