The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 19, 2012 18:57 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: The eudev project launches by nix
Parent article: The eudev project launches

Also, kernel developers take extreme care to maintain backwards compatibility with user interfaces, precisely so that people can upgrade their kernels without worrying about regressions (well, about intended regressions at least). As far as other developers don't do the same, they will not see everyone upgrade as often as they would like to.

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The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 19, 2012 19:33 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Exactly. The kernel regresses a lot, but I know that none of those regressions are intentional, and I have never yet reported a regression and had anything but helpfulness from the famously robust and brutal kernel community. Say what you like, but when it comes to regression management, the kernel is not half bad nowadays. (One hardware-dependent network card lockup bug got repeatedly overlooked and headscratched over, but eventually solved -- it just took a year and a half before I figured out a way to get useful debugging out of it so that anyone else stood a chance. I had to make do with an obscure and ugly workaround in the meantime, but the workaround was given to me in only hours after the initial report.)

The eudev project launches

Posted Dec 19, 2012 20:04 UTC (Wed) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link]

I totally agree on this. As long as you do your part by far most of the kernel devs are *awesome* in fixing bugs. Up to giving you custom code that could possibly recover your lost data due to a fringe bug...

That attitude makes me hell of a lot more forgiving/accepting when facing problems or not totally thought through designs.