Re: Golden rule: don't break userland (was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel)

Greg KH
2005-12-04T23:31:47Z

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:40:59PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Saturday 03 December 2005 15:34, Greg KH wrote:
> > And in the future, the driver/class model changes we are going to be
> > doing (see http://lwn.net/Articles/162242/ for more details on this),
> > will be going to great lengths to prevent anything in userspace from
> > breaking.
>
> It is usually considered a bad netiquette to cross-post in public and
> subscription-only lists. I wonder if pointing to subscription-only
> service to get the feeling about planned driver core changes is a good
> idea.

My apologies. It is merely a detailed description of what I wrote up
here:
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/driver_model_changes.html

I'll forward you a link to it off-list in a minute (and to anyone else
who wants it.) After a week, lwn.net is free, so it will be public.

thanks,

greg k-h