DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
        s=beta; d=gmail.com;
        h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
        b=JtLRWD21AeaiMQskHUooW8s3O46qMXzb441lXq1m8lcnTJ1PjQRNQj2sCicMx9cB0SXoxxkmb5VUsd2zT/qBEps1ihh5AamcHRU+IgNRjJrDPiVrB/WbBlv0EXwD7JoenPw+hSVFFuF5BsTjNTBiYvOwMbbX6UTQ6S0z6xlnxTg=
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:11:24 +0100
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
Cc: James@superbug.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE?
Message-Id: <20060120181124.847b44bc.diegocg@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6769FDC09295B7E6078A5089@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com>
References: <D1A7010C56BB90C4FA73E6DD@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com>
	<43D10FF8.8090805@superbug.co.uk>
	<6769FDC09295B7E6078A5089@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1467
Lines: 29

El Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:36:35 -0700,
Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> escribi?:


> That's the nail on the head exactly.  Why is this being done in an even 
> numbered kernel?  This represents an API change that has knock on well 
> outside of the kernel, and should be done in development releases.  Why is 
> it LK is the only major project (that I know of) that does this?  This is 
> akin to apache changing the format of httpd.conf and saying in say 1.3.38 
> and saying 'well we made the userland tools too.'

There's a Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt file. Is not that devfs
and other features were removed suddenly from one day to another. If external
developers don't care about maintaining code in (say) a 6 month timeframe
kernel developers can't do nothing. External developers are encouraged to
merge their code in the main tree anyway.

It's strange that you mention the devfs case. People wanted to remove 
devfs one or maybe two years ago, and Linus and/or akpm decided to kept
it to give people time to migrate. 

Please see the archives to understand why the people who maintains the
kernel and gets their ass kicked when a stable released has a bug decided 
to set up this development model.
-
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/