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... > Pavel Jim. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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