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This may be true for X, but concerning the kernel, Linus Torvalds states very clearly that whatever change breaks existing client code is a kernel bug.
by konstruktor 14y ago
This may be true for X, but concerning the kernel, Linus Torvalds states very clearly that whatever change breaks existing client code is a kernel bug.
- estebank 14y agoThat is true, but it is also true that it is very unlikely for a hack to make a single application run will be added to the Kernel in the first place.
- makomk 14y agoDunno - I think there was a fairly lovely hack a while back to deal with the fact that the autofs ABI for 32-bit applications on 64-bit kernels wasn't compatible with the ABI for 32-bit applications on 32-bit kernels, and this was breaking stuff. Someone inserted a hack to fix this, which then broke another application which had its own hack to work around the kernel bug. So Linus had to add a hack to unbreak this other application's hack to work around a kernel bug that no longer existed: http://lwn.net/Articles/494993/ http://lwn.net/Articles/494993/