Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262567AbVCCVgM (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:36:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262611AbVCCVdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:33:24 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:12719 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262525AbVCCVbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:31:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4227821F.1080700@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:31:11 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Andrew Morton , Andries Brouwer , davem@davemloft.net, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, notting@redhat.com Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> <20050302172049.72a0037f.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303012707.GK10124@redhat.com> <20050303145846.GA5586@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050303130901.655cb9c4.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303212115.GJ29371@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050303212115.GJ29371@redhat.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: 749 Lines: 23 Dave Jones wrote: > Other failures have been somewhat more dramatic. > I know ipsec-tools, and alsa-lib have both caused pain > on at least one occasion after the last 2-3 kernel updates. alsa-lib is a special case. alsa-lib exists so that it can mitigate changes between the kernel and userland. If the kernel API changes, alsa-lib may need to be updated, but not all the apps using alsa-lib. Someone needs to put alsa-lib updating on the list of stuff to do when updating the kernel... Jeff - 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/