-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 23.11.2009 02:17, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >> Mike Westerhof wrote: >>> Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >>>> Mike Westerhof wrote: >>>>> This is all quite ridiculous -- so in addition to having to >>>>> know the underlying machine (gta01 vs gta02), now >>>>> userspace has to know what kernel version? So all >>>>> userspace apps now have to have a huge nested case >>>>> structure to select the correct sysfs interface, based on >>>>> the machine and the kernel version as well. >>>>> >>>> The second person who apparently missed pattern... >>>> "*::vibrator" >>> Not missed at all -- a) that is a but a single example, and in >>> the general case it doesn't scale, and b) it still results in >>> user-space needing to be changed to work with the new kernel, >>> for no reason other than kernel "pretty-ness". >> Oh boy... If your distro wants to ship 2.6.31 then it should add >> an initscript creating a softlink. > > Did you know that Linus himself has declared that kernel upgrades > should not break userspace regardless of how twisted, buggy or > crappy the userspace is? Even if the userspace in question relies > on an undocumented kernel bug, fixing that kernel bug has to happen > in a way that won't break userspace assumptions. LKML archives have > the flamewar from a few weeks ago in all its beauty. A few other > mails from Linus (different threads, much older) state that a > kernel upgrade should not break an installed distribution. > > Just FYI. > > Regards, Carl-Daniel Yes I did.
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