From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:47:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138142831.2771.149.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124223834.GH2449@redhat.com>
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:38 -0500, 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.
Surely it's OK to experiment with different interfaces in -mm, as long
as it doesn't hit mainline? Otherwise what's the point of an
experimental branch?
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-24 8:29 [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 11:14 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-24 21:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-24 22:14 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 22:20 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 22:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-26 2:09 ` Jim Crilly
2006-01-26 7:58 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-27 1:11 ` Greg KH
2006-01-27 3:42 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 11:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 22:47 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-01-24 23:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25 0:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 23:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 2:46 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-25 10:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-25 12:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
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