Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751013AbVL2V0Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:26:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751014AbVL2V0Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:26:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:14536 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbVL2V0P (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:26:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:25:42 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Jones cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com Subject: Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20051228114637.GA3003@elte.hu> <1135798495.2935.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051228212313.GA4388@elte.hu> <20051228214845.GA7859@elte.hu> <20051228201150.b6cfca14.akpm@osdl.org> <20051229073259.GA20177@elte.hu> <20051229202852.GE12056@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 25 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > At least _I_ take breakage reports seriously. If there are maintainers > that don't, complain to them. I'll back you up. Breaking user space simply > isn't acceptable without years of preparation and warning. Btw, sometimes we knowingly change semantics that we believe that nobody would ever be able to care about. Then we literally _depend_ on people complaining about breakage in case we were wrong, and if you guys don't, and just curse, and upgrade programs, we actually miss out on real information. And yes, occasionally we don't have much choice, and things break. It should be extremely rare, though. Much more commonly it would be a bug or an unintentional change that somebody didn't even realized changed semantics subtly. Linus - 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/