Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754131Ab2KMBXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:23:06 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:46283 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753431Ab2KMBXE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:23:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <545706980.41498.1352739027798.JavaMail.mail@webmail19> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:22:41 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qXyQqNE8S7TqvinYr-IM7H_EX6E Message-ID: Subject: Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE To: David Rientjes Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Davidlohr Bueso , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 23 On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > > You want to carry a dummy tunable forever? Feel free to make it non-dummy. > If not, then how long if two years isn't sufficient? What part of "We don't break user space" do you have trouble understanding? There is no time limit. It's not about time. It's about not breaking user space. End of discussion. I don't understand why people have such a hard time understanding such a simple concept. If people reports it breaks user-space, we fix it. And we keep fixing things until nobody uses the old versions any more. Seriously, IT IS THAT SIMPLE. Linus -- 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/