On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 23:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I think the exports should be restored.  So does Linus ("Not that I like it
> > all that much, but I don't think we should break existing modules unless we
> > have a very specific reason to break just those modules.").
> 
> What happens when the feature is just not (ab)usable in the way proposed ? 

At that point there is a specific _reason_ to break it, aka "that function 
simply doesn't exist any more".

I'm known for happily breaking binary modules, but I think we should do it 
only if we have a reason _other_ than "let's break a module". 

		Linus