From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Source code compatibility in Stable series????
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 04:19:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15099.51885.790847.794749@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105111039.MAA18522@cave.bitwizard.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010511123257.A6023@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <200105111039.MAA18522@cave.bitwizard.nl>
Rogier Wolff writes:
> But it's always been said that source code compatiblity would be
> maintained.
"when possible", we've made no such total souce level
compat. guarentee. And more such changes are coming, for example the
quota bugs can't be fixed without breaking source level compat. for
the filesystems.
You may think and argue otherwise, but our ability to break source
level compatibility is one of our strengths (see solaris rsh root
owned socket bug of yesteryear for one example as to why).
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-11 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-11 12:21 Petr Vandrovec
2001-05-11 10:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-11 10:39 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-11 10:44 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-11 10:52 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-11 11:19 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-11 11:19 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-05-11 11:16 ` David S. Miller
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2001-05-11 13:08 Petr Vandrovec
2001-05-11 9:47 Rogier Wolff
2001-05-11 9:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-11 10:03 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-11 11:13 ` David S. Miller
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