Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751215AbVL3IKT (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:10:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751213AbVL3IKS (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:10:18 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:20907 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbVL3IKQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:10:16 -0500 Subject: Re: userspace breakage From: Arjan van de Ven To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Adrian Bunk , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH In-Reply-To: References: <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> <20051229232548.GT3811@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:09:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1135930199.2941.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 16 > > We used to have a fairly clear point where we could break things, when we > had major kernel releases (ie 2.4 -> 2.6 broke the module loader. It was > documented, and it was unavoidable). maybe such a point should be added back, in the sense that the "announced" things get batched up to, say, every 3rd kernel release. Doing this in batches is less painful than doing it every release. - 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/