Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751152AbVL2Xmr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:42:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751154AbVL2Xmr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:42:47 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:14813 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751152AbVL2Xmr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:42:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:42:32 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: "Jeff V. Merkey" cc: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: userspace breakage In-Reply-To: <43B453CA.9090005@wolfmountaingroup.com> Message-ID: References: <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> <20051229224103.GF12056@redhat.com> <43B453CA.9090005@wolfmountaingroup.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: 686 Lines: 18 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > The breakage issue is ridiculous, assinine, and unnecessary. I have been > porting dsfs to the various releases over the past month, and the > breakage of user space, usb, nfs, memory management, is beyond absurd. We're not talking about internal kernel stuff. Internal kernel stuff _does_ get changed, and we dont' care about breakage of out-of-kernel stuff. That's fundamental. 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/