Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03T17:13:41Z

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 16:58 +0000, David Ranson wrote:
> Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> >>>the model needs finetuning. Right now the biggest pain is the userland
> >>>ABI changes that need new packages; sometimes (often) for no real hard
> >>>reason. Maybe we should just stop doing those bits, they're not in any
> >>>fundamental way blocking general progress (sure there's some code bloat
> >>>due to it, but I guess we'll just have to live with that)
> >>>
> >>>
> Well as a mildly technical 'user' who's been tracking the 2.6 series I
> can't recall having to update _any_ userland packages due to kernel
> changes. An example of this would be helpful.

udev ;)

http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Dec/0180.html

-- Steve