From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644B4198005 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EB7421C099; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com (mail-vc0-f174.google.com [209.85.220.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8CA721C06C for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id n11so196377vch.5 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:30:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=3tRMeLmUNq56W7hJF3CSlI7G5M+EAmUSP+rPw5d/Jlc=; b=GMtQPGqy4k5BVZSZnXFA/rqSBLr8MawETWMFYF3AgLL7M5Dgc/cUrUiGt5uVK9uQtT X7AkLxdkAGtheS+c19561s6R0LQRj0HoDy/b7RFVslbRWPzNb36ShQPcRaMZL+/e1fw5 Mv3SASLfIJqH16ZDKF5JErHMc74NKwMi0CF791BfsGtCyanJqs1QcUS9h3yhrxqkMpNY tmAylK5HhyLuqvsqNgNMvNiiM4f5XsH0+oiYAiDrCyoaNvcQ9yQh5oh8TDEJCD8DiASC G1p+0W7hqffsnBKFpUVL+RWh3wKddrMZlgZtXUefS/mD1IHUXtbPXxp3GuA0tR8qp6IA fvYA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.88.197 with SMTP id bi5mr807030vdb.58.1361511012077; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:30:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: alon.barlev@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.231.201 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:30:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5125f054.B5mRqRmnDiB3eqhE%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <5125f054.B5mRqRmnDiB3eqhE%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:30:11 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: HlDeoMp4o3Gj8KCUFT6W8lUPBMk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ["PATCH"] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules From: Alon Bar-Lev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 25ecaa87-a760-4749-b87e-e34ec73e0135 X-Archives-Hash: 988a5d12879d8f124782b3d74e81d27a On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mike Gilbert wrote: > At that time it turned out, that Linus does not seem to be able to understand > what changes may break an interface. The real problem however was that he was > not willing to fix his fault, so we can definitely call this case (from Spring > 2004) a break by intention. You are totally confusing between stable user space interfaces and unstable kernel interfaces. Kernel is allowed to evolve without legacy and breaking whatever needed in order to be in better shape. Whoever writes external module should merge it into mainline or rebase every release.