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Or, as some OS maintainer once said: WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? We particularly don't break user space with TOTA
by sgerenser 1y ago
Or, as some OS maintainer once said:
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? We particularly don't break user space with TOTAL CRAP.
- aw1621107 1y agoThis situation seems to be more analogous to an out-of-tree driver which reaches into kernel internals, which Linux does break all the time.
- mrheosuper 1y agoif the out-of-tree driver does not touch kernel space, it should not be broken.
- aw1621107 1y agoWell yes, if the out-of-tree driver sticks to public stable APIs it shouldn't be broken. And analogously here, if the software in question stuck to public stable APIs and didn't reach into private internals it shouldn't have broken.