Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757450Ab1EZLsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2011 07:48:04 -0400 Received: from esgaroth.petrovitsch.at ([78.47.184.11]:6240 "EHLO esgaroth.petrovitsch.priv.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754909Ab1EZLsB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2011 07:48:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1035 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 07:48:00 EDT X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 unknown-host p4QBUSkK019598 Subject: Re: UNIX Compatibility From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Michael Witten Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Mike Galbraith , Richard Yao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20110525173846.GG8476@thunk.org> References: <20110524181619.GC26055@thunk.org> <1306297108.4819.28.camel@marge.simson.net> <64e4614dda6f4558a68a314d7b5979b5-mfwitten@gmail.com> <20110525143602.GE8476@thunk.org> <20110525173846.GG8476@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:30:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1306409428.28597.79.camel@thorin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 (2.30.3-1.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-URT-Metrics: esgaroth.petrovitsch.priv.at; whitelist Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 20 On Mit, 2011-05-25 at 18:51 +0000, Michael Witten wrote: [...] > A user should be able to request (possibly dynamically) as many > standards-compliant interfaces as possible from Linux (even if that > precludes new features or optimizations). A user can request anything anytime since ages. But if no one implements and maintains it, s/he can't so anything anyways - except to implement and maintain it on his/her own. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at -- 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/