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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:31:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601250131.59271.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124161714.0118f1af.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >
> > IMHO after it gets into mainline every next version of the interface should
> > be backwards compatible with the previous one.
> 
> That's insufficient.  Every new version of the userspace tools also needs
> to be back-compatible with (and tested against!) older kernels.

Certainly.  I only referred to the "new kernel with old userland tools" case,
but it goes both ways.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25  0:30 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
2006-01-24 23:53         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-25  0:17           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-25  0:31             ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
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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