Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:21:04 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com,
       torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions
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Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > We broke back-compatibility.  The changelog _failed to tell us_ that we
> > were breaking back-compatibility.  The patch wouldn't have been applied if
> > we'd been told that.  At least, not without a lot of careful thought.
> > 
> > The fact that the changelog failed to tell us this makes one suspect that
> > the breakage was inadvertent.
> > 
> > 
> > So no, upgrading HAL is not a good answer.  Please fix the kernel.
> 
> [ bunch of special-pleading ]
>

None of that matters or is relevant.

You took a kernel interface which was present in 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.12,
2.6.13, 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 and changed it in a non-compatible way, without
telling us that it was non-compatible and without even notifying people
that we'd gone and broken existing userspace.

We.  Don't.  Do. That.

Please either restore the old events so we can have a 6-12 month transition
period or revert the patch.

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