Re: Re: Boycott Systemd

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:00:20 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> As for the loss of the usb static device nodes, did you (Frank) file a 
> bug about it breaking your userspace?  That's one of Linus' most firm 
> kernel rules -- you do *NOT* change the userspace/kernelspace API/ABI and 
> break userspace.  However, there's a known exception.  Rather like the 
> old philosophical question as to whether if a tree falls in the forest 
> and nobody hears/sees it, did it actually fall at all, if nobody notices 
> the userspace/kernelspace ABI breaking, did it really break at all?
> 

Bug reports won't be considered.  The removal of the kernel scanner module
was well-planned and deliberate.  The new way is to use libusb to access
the scanner from user space.  If it affects me then it affects countless others
(and there are many forum posts about this issue) but these changes will
not be reversed.

One must move ahead along with the others or be crushed and forgotten.