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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > IMHO after it gets into mainline every next version of the interface should
> > be backwards compatible with the previous one.
> 
> That's insufficient.  Every new version of the userspace tools also needs
> to be back-compatible with (and tested against!) older kernels.

Certainly.  I only referred to the "new kernel with old userland tools" case,
but it goes both ways.
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