From: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:32:35 +0200
> On 13.06.2014 22:03, David Miller wrote: >> From: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com> >> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:19:51 +0200 >> >>> So if I were developing brand new application I could say: I'm >>> dropping all this workaround code and have it clean and require say >>> 3.16 kernel at least. >> >> Then your application wouldn't be usable on %99 of systems for a long >> long time. >> > > How come? The application is going to be usable for as long as > library/kernel APIs won't change. Because %99 of users are using a distribution kernel which is definitely going to be pre-3.16 for years. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
