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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:47:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138142831.2771.149.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124223834.GH2449@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:38 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > We'll of course try to get the interface right at the first
>  > try. OTOH... if wrong interface is in kernel for a month, I do not
>  > think it is reasonable to keep supporting that wrong interface for a
>  > year before it can be removed. One month of warning should be fair in
>  > such case...
> 
> Users want to be able to boot between different kernels.
> Tying functionality to specific versions of userspace completely
> screws them over.

Surely it's OK to experiment with different interfaces in -mm, as long
as it doesn't hit mainline?  Otherwise what's the point of an
experimental branch?

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-24 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-24  8:29 [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 11:14 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-24 21:30   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 21:58     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-24 22:14       ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 22:20         ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 22:33           ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-24 22:38             ` Dave Jones
2006-01-24 22:44               ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-26  2:09                 ` Jim Crilly
2006-01-26  7:58                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-27  1:11                   ` Greg KH
2006-01-27  3:42                   ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 11:24                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 22:47               ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-01-24 23:53         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25  0:17           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25  0:31             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-24 23:35   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25  2:46     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-25 10:50       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 12:18     ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-25 12:29       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25 12:20     ` Pavel Machek

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