Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751919AbbFYCOz (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 22:14:55 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.230]:48864 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751098AbbFYCOu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 22:14:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 22:14:47 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Richard Weinberger , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Herrmann , Djalal Harouni , Havoc Pennington , "Eric W. Biederman" , One Thousand Gnomes , Tom Gundersen , Daniel Mack Subject: Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? Message-ID: <20150625021447.GA6837@home.goodmis.org> References: <20150623064140.GA18300@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 25 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:07:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > FWIW, once there are real distros with kdbus userspace enabled, > reviewing kdbus gets more complicated -- we'll be in the position > where merging kdbus in a different form from that which was proposed > will break existing users. Actually, I think distros having it in their kernel before it's in mainline is actually a good thing. Let them straighten out the issues that may come up (not to mention possible CVEs). If the distros have it in their kernels and out in the public for 6 months or more, that may give enough information as to whether or not it should be merged. I don't think it will complicate things even if the API changes. The distros will have to deal with that fall out. Mainline only cares about its own regressions. But any API changes would only be done for good reasons, and give the distros an excuse to fix whatever was done wrong in the first place. -- Steve -- 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/