From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266764AbUGUWsp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:48:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266766AbUGUWsp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:48:45 -0400 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:8909 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266764AbUGUWso (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:48:44 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete devfs Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:47:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Jesse Stockall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040721141524.GA12564@kroah.com> <1090446817.8033.18.camel@homer.blizzard.org> <20040721220529.GB18721@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040721220529.GB18721@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407220047.53153.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 00:05 schrieb Greg KH: > > That's the point that Oliver and I raised, the "leave it till 2.7" (not > > breaking things for real world users) argument seems stronger than the > > "rip it now" (because it makes things cleaner, easier to code, etc) > > argument. > > The kernel development model (the whole stable/development tree thing) > has changed based on the discussions at the kernel summit yesterday. > See lwn.net for more details. That is why I sent this patch at this > point in time. Interesting, but we are not talking about an _internal_ API here. It's about blocking the upgrade path. System using a stable kernel will needlessly stop working after an upgrade to another stable kernel. Regards Oliver