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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:41:08 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Golden rule: don't break userland (was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel)
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On 12/4/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:40:59PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 December 2005 15:34, Greg KH wrote:
> > > And in the future, the driver/class model changes we are going to be
> > > doing (see http://lwn.net/Articles/162242/ for more details on this),
> > > will be going to great lengths to prevent anything in userspace from
> > > breaking.
> >
> > It is usually considered a bad netiquette to cross-post in public and
> > subscription-only lists. I wonder if pointing to subscription-only
> > service to get the feeling about planned driver core changes is a good
> > idea.
>
> My apologies.  It is merely a detailed description of what I wrote up
> here:
>        http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/driver_model_changes.html
>

Ahh, I see.

> I'll forward you a link to it off-list in a minute (and to anyone else
> who wants it.)  After a week, lwn.net is free, so it will be public.
>

That is allright, the link above is all I needed. I don't really want
to use LWN "ahead of time" - they sell subsciptions - good for them.

--
Dmitry
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