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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211121339000.23347@chino.kir.corp.google.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:41:21 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...os.com> cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dave@....org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote: > Hello, > > If I remember correctly kernel developers promised not to break user APIs in the Linux kernel > however in Linux 3.7 a /proc/<PID>/oom_adj file has been totally removed which makes KDE 3.5.x > (and I suppose TDE) unusable as they depend on this file and simply refuse to start in its absence. > This is http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/unassigned-bugs/2010-December/016850.html from almost two years ago. The tunable had been on the feature removal schedule for two years and would have emitted a warning if you had run on any kernel during that time. KDE 4.6.1 and later from two years ago work fine. > Also, udev in CentOS/RHEL/Scientific and other old Linux'es depend on this file (which is not critical > but not pleasant anyway). > Fixed in udev v162 at the same time kde was. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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