Re: [PATCH] delete devfs

Oliver Neukum
2004-07-21T22:48:45Z

Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 00:05 schrieb Greg KH:
> > That's the point that Oliver and I raised, the "leave it till 2.7" (not
> > breaking things for real world users) argument seems stronger than the
> > "rip it now" (because it makes things cleaner, easier to code, etc)
> > argument.
>
> The kernel development model (the whole stable/development tree thing)
> has changed based on the discussions at the kernel summit yesterday.
> See lwn.net for more details. That is why I sent this patch at this
> point in time.

Interesting, but we are not talking about an _internal_ API here.
It's about blocking the upgrade path. System using a stable kernel will
needlessly stop working after an upgrade to another stable kernel.

Regards
Oliver