From: "Stephen J. Gowdy" <gowdy@mh1.lbl.gov>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:58:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98019349924852@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98018911111962@msgid-missing>
But "pre-2.4.0" (I read between the lines) didn't include 2.2.x in this
context.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Keith Owens 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.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-22 19:58 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
2001-01-22 19:37 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 19:58 ` Stephen J. Gowdy [this message]
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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