Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)

[Pavel Machek]

On St 25-01-06 21:09:27, Jim Crilly wrote:
> On 01/24/06 11:44:37PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Út 24-01-06 17:38:34, Dave Jones wrote:
> > >  > We'll of course try to get the interface right at the first
> > >  > try. OTOH... if wrong interface is in kernel for a month, I do not
> > >  > think it is reasonable to keep supporting that wrong interface for a
> > >  > year before it can be removed. One month of warning should be fair in
> > >  > such case...
> > > 
> > > Users want to be able to boot between different kernels.
> > > Tying functionality to specific versions of userspace completely
> > > screws them over.
> > 
> > Well, by the time we have any _users_ interface should be
> > stable. Actually I believe interface will be stable from day 0, but...
> >
> 
> I'm sure gregkh thought the same thing with about sysfs and udev and we've
> seen how well that's worked out...

Quite well, I'd say. But whats your alternative, just stop adding
interfaces to the kernel? Oops...
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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