From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:28:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98019287923225@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98018911111962@msgid-missing>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-22 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-22 18:24 modutils 2.4.2, please test asap Keith Owens
2001-01-22 19:28 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-01-22 19:37 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 19:58 ` Stephen J. Gowdy
2001-01-22 20:05 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 20:16 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-01-22 20:30 ` David Brownell
2001-01-22 21:40 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 22:29 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-01-22 22:51 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 23:09 ` Greg KH
2001-01-22 23:21 ` David Brownell
2001-01-22 23:38 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 23:42 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-23 2:52 ` David Brownell
2001-01-23 3:25 ` Keith Owens
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