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Linux DRM subsystem will change if your process name starts with the letter 'X'
- necovek 4y agoI am surprised at all the surprise. Linus' policy has long been that you can't break userspace no matter how broken you think userspace is. With all the outraged comments there, I still think that's the right choice for an OS kernel. While developers are getting used to lack of backwards compatibility in their dependencies, I still can't accept that as the ideal to aim for. Sure, the type of check is bad, and it might be the time to revisit it (eg. add a hard-coded list of all processes that still need it), but you don't want to be breaking the world as a kernel.