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>>>>> "Donald" == Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> writes:
    Donald> The drivers in the kernel are now heavily modified and have significantly
    Donald> diverged from my version.  Sure, you are fine with having someone else
    Donald> do the difficult and unrewarding debugging and maintainence work, while
    Donald> you work on just the latest cool hardware, change the interfaces and are
    Donald> concerned only with the current kernel version.

  I agree strongly with Donald.

  Interfaces should NEVER change in patch level versions.
  Just *DO NOT DO IT*.

  Go wild in odd-numbered.. get the interfaces right there.
  But leave them alone afterward.
  
  This is a fundamental tenant of being professional. Otherwise, the kernel
people are the biggest reason I've ever seen for using *BSD.
  Microsoft is not the real enemy. Gratuitous change is.

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