Re: starting with 2.7

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 5 Jan 2005, at 14:31, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
> >  I don't pretend that kernel interfaces stay written in stone, for 
> > ages. What I would like is that, at least, those interfaces were 
> > stable enough, let's say for a few months for a stable kernel series, 
> > so I don't have to keep bothering my propietary VMWare vendor to fix 
> > the problems for me, since the new kernel interface broke VMWare. 
> > Yeah, I know I could decide not to upgrade kernels in last instance, 
> > but that's not always possible.
>
> You should definitely bother your proprietary vendor all the time, 
> they will then
> see more clearly that they have to act fast _if_ they want to stay 
> proprietary.

I do bother them, but they try at its best to fix things, and they do. 
They are propietary, and neither me nor anyone can force them to change 
their minds.

> > If kernel interfaces need to be changed for whatever reason, change 
> > them in 2.7, -mm, -ac or whatever tree first, and let the community 
> > know beforehand what those changes will be, and be prepared to adapt. 
> > Meanwhile, try to leave 2.6 as stable as possible.
>
> Do you follow -mm, -ac, and friends closely?  Most changes do happen 
> in -mm first.
> So you have time, all the way up to the next release.  Use that time 
> to bug your
> vendor about the imminent change.  There seems to be weeks between 
> releases
> now, plenty of time for a vendor to stay up-to-date.

I try to follow -mm releases closely, but as someone said, the 
ChangeLog is extremely dense for me to try to understand what's going 
on deeply.

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