Bug#727708: Aribtrarily breaking working interfaces?
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Steve McIntyre writes:
>> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/518942/
> Blimey. I hadn't been aware of that. Have there been more of these
> disputes between the kernel and udev maintainers ?
I think it's worth noting that the very first comment on that news article
is a note that the issue was already fixed in udev, independent of the
move of firmware loading to the kernel, with a link to a perfectly
reasonable-looking fix in Git.
LWN, like most journalists, have a vested interest in making stories
sensational. I'm not a fan of the way Linux development discussion is
handled (most issues turn into these ranting contests), but by and large
they do converge on some reasonable solution rather quickly.
This whole thing looks like a tempest in a teapot to me. Linux kernel
development is very good at creating those; the project is rather
pathological that way.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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