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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190418171059.GA20819@wind.enjellic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/18/19 10:10 AM, Dr. Greg wrote: > In addition, the driver breaks all existing SGX software by breaking > compatibility with what is a 3+ year ABI provided by the existing > driver. This seems to contravene the well understood philosophy that > Linux doesn't, if at all possible, break existing applications, Sorry, that doesn't apply to out-of-tree modules. While we don't go out of our way to intentionally break apps who are relying on out-of-tree modules, we also don't go our of or way to keep them working. Please stop asking about this. I don't see any route where it's going to change. Companies ideally shouldn't be getting their customers hooked on out-of-tree ABIs and customers should consume out-of-tree ABIs *expecting* them to break in the future.