Personally, I'd be happier if they forked the production and experimental kernels again.
Posted by: Anonymous
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on October 21, 2007 03:21 AM
As someone who writes device drivers for Linux, I cannot begin to tell you how much pain it causes me every time there's a new kernel release. At least in the 2.4 days you knew that any changes were to fix actual bugs - but now you have to expect gratuitous changes to APIs, experimental features, and rewrites of core functionality - all of which forces me into the position of having to completely re-test every driver with every distro and to write convoluted #ifdef'ed code to deal with all the various flavors that I have to support.
It's telling that the third edition of the O'Reilly Linux Device Drivers book explicitly states that it is only accurate for 2.6.10 and for no other version.
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Personally, I'd be happier if they forked the production and experimental kernels again.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.224.164.16] on October 21, 2007 03:21 AMIt's telling that the third edition of the O'Reilly Linux Device Drivers book explicitly states that it is only accurate for 2.6.10 and for no other version.
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