From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ken Werner <ken.werner@web.de>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] cpumask: fix compat getaffinity
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:13:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005112013.56392.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100511152002.GB16561@kroah.com>
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:20:02 Greg KH wrote:
> > AFAIK, -stable is mainly used for distro and they have many and many
> > packages. we can't assume no app read /sys files directly.
> > IOW, To change /sys printing format is a bit risky change. frequently
> > compatibility breaking natually break code stability.
>
> Ah, the sysfs user/kernel API is what you are referring to here, right?
> If so, remember, any changes need to be documented in Documentation/API
> :)
> And as for distros using -stable for their releases, that's fine, they
> well know the risks/benefits for that and handle changes on their own.
Would it make sense to use my initial patch for -stable, which reverts
the ABI back to before the change that caused the problem, but apply
the correct fix (changing the ABI throughout) for future releases?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 12:45 cpumask: fix compat getaffinity Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-08 8:30 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-08 9:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 23:43 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-11 1:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-11 3:13 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-05-11 5:51 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-11 6:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-11 6:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-11 15:20 ` Greg KH
2010-05-11 18:13 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-05-11 21:36 ` Greg KH
2010-05-12 8:30 ` Milton Miller
2010-05-14 12:39 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-17 6:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-17 18:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-18 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2010-12-14 16:59 ` Josh Hunt
2010-12-15 14:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-22 23:30 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-11 9:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-12 0:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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