From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:21:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020927222159.A5124@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033153674.16726.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:07:54PM +0100
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:07:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> With all the vendors now shipping 4.2 this seems a bad thing to default
> to the 4,1 interface - especially as the 4.1 server is
>
> o Buggy
> o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only
I don't think that's the proper argument. 2.4.20 silently breaking
systems that worked fine with 2.4.19 is not the way new linux releases
work. Vendors can of course feel free to have the new ABI by default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-28 1:27 [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 19:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-27 19:13 ` Ben Collins
2002-09-27 20:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-28 2:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-09-27 20:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 20:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-09-29 20:43 ` Alan Cox
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