A perf ABI fix

Posted Sep 26, 2013 20:25 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: A perf ABI fix by pr1268
Parent article: A perf ABI fix

I despair.

Might such travesties have led Brian Kernighan to say that Linux kernel code was even worse than Microsoft NT kernel code he had seen?

At X.org, they take long-time brokenness of a feature to demonstrate that the feature is unused and may be eliminated. That would not be inappropriate in this case. If the feature is expected to be useful in the future, the sensible approach is to design another interface with another name, and leave the busted one the hell alone.