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From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib()  & 2.6.X?)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:23:39 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0501111820350.18921@dlang.diginsite.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050112021246.GE4325@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net>

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Barry K. Nathan wrote:

>> People always claim that Linux is good in preserving binary compatibility.
>> Don't know how true that was, but introducing such config options doesnt
>> help.
>
> Binary compatibility is good to have, but it isn't everything in life.
> *Optionally* breaking compatibility with certain types of old binaries
> doesn't seem so bad to me. People who want binary compatibility can have
> it, and people who don't need it can choose to not install the old code
> on their systems.

we already allow people to not support a.out formats, this breaks binary 
compatability (probably much more severely then this does)

however we do need to be very sure that if any call is dropped as being 
obsolete it really is not likly to be used (see all the recent flames 
about people dropping (or proposing dropping) features out of the kernel 
for examples of what not to mark obsolete)

David Lang

-- 
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
  -- C.A.R. Hoare

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-12  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-07 15:59 uselib() & 2.6.X? Lukasz Trabinski
2005-01-07 17:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-07 20:27   ` linux-os
2005-01-07 22:29     ` Athanasius
2005-01-07 22:49   ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08  0:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 22:12       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-08 18:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-08 18:28           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-09  1:38             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-09 11:06               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10  8:34                 ` Frank Steiner
2005-01-10 16:51                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 18:28                   ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11  7:49                     ` Frank Steiner
2005-01-08 21:07           ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-08 22:30             ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-08 23:21             ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08 23:30               ` Alan Cox
2005-01-09  0:57                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-09  0:49             ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-09  2:21               ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-09  2:17                 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-08 21:47           ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 22:51           ` [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?) Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-11 23:42             ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-11 23:59             ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-12  1:06               ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-12  1:18                 ` David Lang
2005-01-11 22:36                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-12  2:32                     ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12  0:56                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-12  6:10                         ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12 16:47                           ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-12 17:10                             ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12 20:16                     ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-12  2:12               ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12  2:23                 ` David Lang [this message]
2005-01-12  2:30                 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-12  5:11                 ` Stephen Pollei
2005-01-12 16:54                   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-12  7:58               ` Christoph Hellwig

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