Ultimately Linux development is driven by people who participate on LKML. If you are not willing to at least follow deprecations and show up for discussions then you are at the mercy of those who do
Ultimately Linux development is driven by people who participate on LKML. If you are not willing to at least follow deprecations and show up for discussions then you are at the mercy of those who do
Torvalds has made it very clear, on several occasions, that breaking userspace is not acceptable. I'm sure the kernel's deprecation policy is more detailed than "show up on LKML or else".
> Torvalds has made it very clear, on several occasions, that breaking userspace is not acceptable.
Breakages to userspace happen somewhat regularly from what I get, but its more of a case of "If the tree falls in the forest and nobody complains it didn't happen". Though its more that one should at least make sure in some form or fashion that it won't at least affect anyone.