Kernel release status

Posted Sep 17, 2020 20:04 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Kernel release status by ballombe
Parent article: Kernel release status

Yeah, what ever happened to the "don't break userspace" rule?

Even if you accept Linus' assertion that consoles haven't been the primary interaction method for a couple of decades (completely ignoring embedded users) soft scrollback remains an important part of system recovery environments, where you won't have X, remote network access, or indeed, anything more than an emergency shell that part of your initramfs.

I've used console softscroll three times in the past week alone.

Kernel release status

Posted Sep 17, 2020 22:05 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

I can understand Linus request of a new maintainer.
However if reporting security issues in the console code leads to features being removed, I will stop report the
ones I find...