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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:49:37 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. 
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Hi,

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Horst von Brand wrote:

> People
> backward compatibility and minimal upgrading pain (to get your random BOFH
> to recompile a kernel is _not_ trivial today!) is much more important than
> code backward compatibility, IMHO. [I'm speaking from the perspective of
> the user/sysadmin, _not_ the kernel hacker here].

I can only agree and I hope more people realize the importance of this.
My main problem with the module fiasco are the complete new user space 
tools. I urge anyone who only cares a little bit about modules to compare 
modules.conf(5) with modprobe.conf(5) and to tell me whether _all_ the
removed options are really unnecessary? What happened to deprecating 
features _first_?

bye, Roman

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