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Re: Linux 3.0



On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:03:01AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On May 30, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > > There are likely to be many programs and build scripts that test for a
> > > kernel version prefix of '2.6' vs '2.4' and will behave incorrectly when
> > > they find '3.0'.  Others require that there are at least 3 numeric
> > Expect module-init-tools and three udev scripts to break, for a start.
> > I will fix them in the next upload.
> > 
> > This is hugely annoying, because it means that squeeze installs will
> > not work with the kernel from wheezy.
> 
> Can't we fix that in a point release, by backporting fixes?
[...]
 
Also an option, yes.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus


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