On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:17:21 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
wrote:
Telling a user who has just burnt out a brand new 1GB usb device he
should
have RTFM and modified that HAL configuration to insure it did not use
sync it not likely to win much confidence in the linux kernel.
or in HAL. really.
It may unfairly reflect on HAL in the users' mind but hal still does
exactly what it is set up to do.
there was a very long discussion abuot kernel stability.
The problem is that once depending on the absence of a feature becomes
ABI ... there is a big problem.
It was not totally absent. If it was absent no-one would configure
anything to use it anyway. It seems that big problem was that it
functionality was fundamentlly changed but it was passed on like a minor
mod that no-one needed to worry about and the doc was not updated at the
time.
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