Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264970AbUFRBrC (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:47:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264915AbUFRBpY (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:45:24 -0400 Received: from smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.226]:3991 "HELO smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264946AbUFRBla (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:41:30 -0400 Message-ID: <40D24848.4010800@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:41:28 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 4Front Technologies CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness References: <40D232AD.4020708@opensound.com> <20040618004450.GT12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <40D23EBD.50600@opensound.com> <40D24606.6040009@yahoo.com.au> <40D2474D.8030303@opensound.com> In-Reply-To: <40D2474D.8030303@opensound.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1352 Lines: 39 4Front Technologies wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > >> 4Front Technologies wrote: >> >>> >>> It's time everybody started to pay some attention to in-kernel >>> interfaces because >>> Linux has graduated out of your personal sandbox to where other >>> people want to use >>> Linux and they aren't kernel developers. >>> >> >> No, it is still our personal sandbox actually, and it is you >> who must pay attention to in-kernel interfaces. >> > The problem is that we ARE paying attention to in-kernel interfaces or else > why would our software work on Linux 2.6.7 or Fedora or Mandrake? > As Andrew pointed out, it is probably a simple bug in the SuSE kernel or your code. You aren't having this problem because we're changing interfaces willy nilly. >> Or were you hoping that we're all here just to make your life >> easier? >> > I don't expect you to make my life easier. Why don't we all take > a huge plunge backwards to circa 1958 and start programming by throwing > switches?. Are you against making linux better or what? > I think maybe you should get a good night's sleep before posting again. - 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/