Les Mikesell wrote:
That sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. It's not really the
business of
an OS to own and restrict everything that touches it, whether on the
driver or application interfaces. Attempting that will limit what users
can do with it. Would you, for example, put all of your critical data
on a firewire drive while you upgrade through the kernels used from FC5
to current?
I assume you know very well that discussing this here isn't going to
change how the upstream kernel works. Either go to LKML and see if you
can convince anyone with your arguments or drop it.
Rahul