linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
cc:	Antonino Ingargiola <tritemio@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in
> 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course.

And we really complained about it! The oprofile thing should be fixed, 
btw, and yeah,if udev breaks any more, I'll have to stop taking patches 
from Greg. That thing has been a disaster, and everybody involved should 
be ashamed and now hopefully *very* aware of the fact that we don't break 
user-level interfaces.

(Right now, I suspect we may have a loop setup regression. Not sure)

> We already have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED for that.

..and that should have been made more clear. I certainly didn't react to 
it immediately.

			Linus
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