Re: userspace breakage

> 
> We used to have a fairly clear point where we could break things, when we 
> had major kernel releases (ie 2.4 -> 2.6 broke the module loader. It was 
> documented, and it was unavoidable). 

maybe such a point should be added back, in the sense that the
"announced" things get batched up to, say, every 3rd kernel release.
Doing this in batches is less painful than doing it every release.


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