[rant] keeping policy in HAL

[David Miller]

From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:26:51 +0100 (CET)

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> Le Lun 1 décembre 2008 11:19, David Miller a écrit :
> >
> > From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
> > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:58:17 +0100 (CET)
> >
> >> If there is somethign obvious here, is that emacs maintainers didn't
> >> made due diligence by any reasonable definition. Even the kernel
> >> made
> >> major changes (devfs, sysfs, etc) in the time it took for emacs
> >> folks
> >> to admit there was a problem.
> >
> > You can run binaries compiled 15 years ago for Linux and they
> > work and run just fine on today's kernels.
> 
> Yes, sure, tell that to all the people who have OSS-using binaries
> (not even 15 years old)

That's a bug that should be fixed and not intentional breakage.