Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: David Ranson <david@unsolicited.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:13:32 -0500
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 16:58 +0000, David Ranson wrote:
> Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> >>>the model needs finetuning. Right now the biggest pain is the userland
> >>>ABI changes that need new packages; sometimes (often) for no real hard
> >>>reason. Maybe we should just stop doing those bits, they're not in any
> >>>fundamental way blocking general progress (sure there's some code bloat
> >>>due to it, but I guess we'll just have to live with that)
> >>>
> >>>
> Well as a mildly technical 'user' who's been tracking the 2.6 series I
> can't recall having to update _any_ userland packages due to kernel
> changes. An example of this would be helpful.

udev ;)

http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Dec/0180.html

-- Steve


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