From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:28:20 +0000 Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:37:47 -0800, Miles Lane 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel