On 23.01.2018 08:46, Hadrien Grasland wrote:
Tell that to the kernel maintainers next time they will break my video driver
If they break it, they fix it. Usually fast. Unless you insist on using drivers of questionable legal status.
or send someone's production system in an infinite bootloop in what was supposed to be a security update.
Well, the current (mainly) intel snafu is something you can hardly blame the Kernel guys for. Apart from than, I'm running Kernel:HEAD kernels (which means: always the latest after -rc2 or so) since almost 10 years wihtout such problems.
And yet, for some reason, we in the Linux world never had much issue building on top of that.
Actually, for the kernel, there is a very strong commitment to "never break userspace" with an update. If you find some userspace application that does no longer work after a kernel update, then Linus will make sure that the change is reverted. No matter what. Just one of the countless examples on lkml: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 Well, unless the application has been using really *documented unstable* interfaces.
Compared to what major Linux infrastructure projects like the kernel, Mesa, or KDE will still periodically send people through
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