Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

[Con Kolivas]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > We.  Don't.  Do. That.
> >
> > Please either restore the old events so we can have a 6-12 month
> > transition period or revert the patch.
>
> I agree.
>
> This stupid argument of "HAL is part of the kernel, so we can break it" is
> _bogus_.
>
> The fact is, if changing the kernel breaks user-space, it's a regression.
> IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER IT'S IN /sbin/hotplug OR ANYTHING ELSE. If it
> was installed by a distribution, it's user-space. If it got installed by
> "vmlinux", it's the kernel.
>
> The only piece of user-space code we ship with the kernel is the system
> call trampoline etc that the kernel sets up. THOSE interfaces we can
> really change, because it changes with the kernel.

Sanity.

It would be a sad day when no distribution in existence can support the 
current kernel except for a bleeding edge source based thing upgraded daily.

Cheers,
Con
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