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My strawman is to suggest that we relax this. We change the promise "if it works on a released kernel, it will work on all future released kernels", to "if it works on N consecutive released kernels, it will work on all future released kernels", and then bikeshed the value of N, but probably settle on N=2. This should give important new freedom to kernel developers, and impose a (hopefully) small burden on application developers. They should be testing their code anyway (we all should), now they have to test it twice.