On 27 Feb 2006 20:31:28 +0100, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greg KH <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As has been noticed recently by a lot of different people, it seems like
> > we are breaking the userspace<->kernelspace interface a lot. Well, in
> > looking back over time, we always have been doing this, but no one seems
> > to notice (proc files changing format and location, netlink library
> > bindings, etc.)
>
> Ok, but how do you plan to address the basic practical problem?
> People cannot freely upgrade/downgrade kernels anymore since udev/hal
> are used widely in distributions.
>
Just a datapoint: My distribution (Slackware) uses udev (but not hal)
and I move between lots of different 2.6.x kernels and even 2.4.x
kernels without problems.
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