Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751283AbWAZCKl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:10:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751286AbWAZCKl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:10:41 -0500 Received: from atpro.com ([12.161.0.3]:29700 "EHLO atpro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751283AbWAZCKk (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:10:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:09:27 -0500 From: Jim Crilly To: Pavel Machek Cc: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2) Message-ID: <20060126020926.GR5501@mail> Mail-Followup-To: Pavel Machek , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200601240929.37676.rjw@sisk.pl> <20060124131312.0545262d.akpm@osdl.org> <20060124213010.GA1602@elf.ucw.cz> <20060124135843.739481e7.akpm@osdl.org> <20060124221426.GB1602@elf.ucw.cz> <20060124222044.GG2449@redhat.com> <20060124223328.GC1602@elf.ucw.cz> <20060124223834.GH2449@redhat.com> <20060124224437.GA2007@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060124224437.GA2007@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 27 On 01/24/06 11:44:37PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On ?t 24-01-06 17:38:34, Dave Jones wrote: > > > We'll of course try to get the interface right at the first > > > try. OTOH... if wrong interface is in kernel for a month, I do not > > > think it is reasonable to keep supporting that wrong interface for a > > > year before it can be removed. One month of warning should be fair in > > > such case... > > > > Users want to be able to boot between different kernels. > > Tying functionality to specific versions of userspace completely > > screws them over. > > Well, by the time we have any _users_ interface should be > stable. Actually I believe interface will be stable from day 0, but... > I'm sure gregkh thought the same thing with about sysfs and udev and we've seen how well that's worked out... > Pavel Jim. - 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/