Alan Cox wrote:
Sometimes, sometimes not. Suppose you had developed something as an
add-on to CIPE tunnels on the RHEL3/kernel 2.4. There's no concession
to backwards compatibility on RHEL4 and later.
Which is a good thing. A very good thing as CIPE turned out to have
fundamental security failings.
As have lots of other things that were fixed rather than discarded. But
I'm not trying to second-guess whether changes were good or bad here,
just pointing out that you can't count on anything to be the same
between releases.
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Les Mikesell
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