From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161046AbWBVRKx (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:10:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751373AbWBVRKx (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:10:53 -0500 Received: from webmail.terra.es ([213.4.149.12]:50466 "EHLO csmtpout1.frontal.correo") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751371AbWBVRKx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:10:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:10:28 +0100 (added by postmaster@terra.es) From: grundig To: David Zeuthen Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, kay.sievers@suse.de, penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions Message-Id: <20060222180614.39f2294b.grundig@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <1140625103.21517.18.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> References: <20060217231444.GM4422@stusta.de> <84144f020602190306o3149d51by82b8ccc6108af012@mail.gmail.com> <20060219145442.GA4971@stusta.de> <1140383653.11403.8.camel@localhost> <20060220010205.GB22738@suse.de> <1140562261.11278.6.camel@localhost> <20060221225718.GA12480@vrfy.org> <20060222152743.GA22281@vrfy.org> <1140625103.21517.18.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:18:22 -0500, David Zeuthen escribió: > But I realize these changes are important because it's progress and back > in 2.6.0 things were horribly broken for at least desktop workloads [1]. As long as those changes don't come suddenly in the night, without a transition period... Check for Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for some examples of how to deprecate userland interfaces properly.