Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap

[Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:37:47 -0800, 
> Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> >Hey.  Let's be fair here.  Linus rejected your patch for reasons that
> >had absolutely nothing to do with USB backport support issues.
> 
> On the contrary.  Linus rejected the patch because
> 
>   "I'd much rather just have the 2.4.0 behaviour, and no versioning.
>   Tell people that 2.4.0-test kernels won't work. They'll notice on
>   their own."
> 
> and
> 
>   "The fact that such modutils binaries won't work with pre-2.4.0
>   kernels is not even on my radar screen, quite frankly.  There isn't
>   even an installed base of people using it, and I don't think anybody
>   of the developers using it are still using pre-kernels. In short, I
>   see absolutely no reason for even trying to maintain any backwards
>   compatibility in this area.".
> 
> Because the USB maintainers did not want to support backwards
> compatibility, Linus saw no need for the patch.  Which is fine, if you
> are happy to break backwards compatibility.  It should be obvious that
> I disagree strongly with this attitude.

Just to clarify, I see no reason for supporting backwards compatibility
with development kernels. I completely agree with Linus wrt to this
decision.

As for 2.2 kernels, that's a different matter. It's essentially a fork
the 2.4 code which has been tracking changes and backporting them as
necessary.

Hotplugging is another whole ball of wax in 2.2.

JE


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