Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

2012-11-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > > You want to carry a dummy tunable forever? Feel free to make it non-dummy. > If not, then how long if two years isn't sufficient? What part of "We don't break user space" do you have trouble understanding? There is no time limit. It's

Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

2012-11-12 Thread David Rientjes
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The work-around might be as simple as creating an oom_adj file that > simply doesn't do anything. > You want to carry a dummy tunable forever? If not, then how long if two years isn't sufficient? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

2012-11-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:41 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > > This is > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/unassigned-bugs/2010-December/016850.html > from almost two years ago. The tunable had been on the feature removal > schedule for two years and would have emitted a warning if you had run on > any k

Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

2012-11-12 Thread David Rientjes
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote: > Hello, > > If I remember correctly kernel developers promised not to break user APIs in > the Linux kernel > however in Linux 3.7 a /proc//oom_adj file has been totally removed > which makes KDE 3.5.x > (and I suppose TDE) unusable as they depend

OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE

2012-11-12 Thread Artem S. Tashkinov
Hello, If I remember correctly kernel developers promised not to break user APIs in the Linux kernel however in Linux 3.7 a /proc//oom_adj file has been totally removed which makes KDE 3.5.x (and I suppose TDE) unusable as they depend on this file and simply refuse to start in its absence. Als