On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:58AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > Is there an official cut-off of support for old kernels in master?
My opinion is that we should break compatibility with an old kernel/compiler/library/OS when BOTH 1) we think very few or no people are still using it AND 2) there's a good payoff for doing so. (I realize this is a pretty high bar.) I am sure in this case that #1 is not true since it'd break compatibility with Dapper, which a lot of people are still using. I still occasionally see mention of people using Dapper for new installs because of nebulous hardware compatibility issues. I can't tell if #2 is true. The new code doesn't look markedly simpler and it adds a FIXME. As an aside, change messages should not say what you did; they should say why you did it. That knowledge would help me answer question #2. Maybe you fixed a bug here, or improved handling of quotes or commas or something...? If so that information should be in the log message. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
