From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen J. Gowdy" Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:58:04 +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 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 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 > -- /------------------------------+-=-=-=-=-+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy |A4000/040| Mail Stop 50A-2160, LBL, | |http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~gowdy/ | 1GB HD| 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley,| | |20MB RAM| CA 94720, USA | |InterNet: SGowdy@lbl.gov |3.4xCDROM| Tel: +1 510 495 2796 | \------------------------------+-=-=-=-=-+-------------------------/ _______________________________________________ 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