From: Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:09:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060126020926.GR5501@mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124224437.GA2007@elf.ucw.cz>
On 01/24/06 11:44:37PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Út 24-01-06 17:38:34, 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.
>
> Well, by the time we have any _users_ interface should be
> stable. Actually I believe interface will be stable from day 0, but...
>
I'm sure gregkh thought the same thing with about sysfs and udev and we've
seen how well that's worked out...
> Pavel
Jim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-26 2:10 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 [this message]
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
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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