Re: (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> Fine, until the next time any of the table formats have to be changed.

Oh, agreed. We want to fix this eventually, but I really feel that it's a
2.5.x issue.

It turns into a 2.4.x issue only if somebody can show that 2.4.0 _cannot_
work. Which is not the case, as far as I know. 

I certainly agree that the unintentional table format change was a very
unfortunate thing. It was not intended to have the consequences it had,
and obviously nobody even thought about it. As such, comments etc should
probably be updated, but I don't want interface changes until they
absolutely _have_ to happen.

(Side note: when 2.5.x does do this and adds proper versioning, and it is
found to be good, and the improved modutils spread out, we may end up
back-porting the stuff later. And I would certainly not mind modutils
already getting the hooks in it to support versioning - I do see that it's
a good idea. It' sjust that I'd rather not make what I consider to be just
cleanups when they actually change behaviour).

		Linus


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