Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:10:28 +0100 (added by postmaster@terra.es)
From: grundig <grundig@teleline.es>
To: David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions
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El Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:18:22 -0500,
David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> escribi?:


> But I realize these changes are important because it's progress and back
> in 2.6.0 things were horribly broken for at least desktop workloads [1].

As long as those changes don't come suddenly in the night, without a
transition period...

Check for Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for some examples
of how to deprecate userland interfaces properly.
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