Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary)
Instead, what I suggest we do is:
Case 1: if a user program notice that a new kernel breaks something, then
(a) report it to kernel people with a test-case
(b) if you notice that the *reason* a new kernel broke something is
because you had a bug and you can just fix that bug and it will always
work on all kernels, by all means just fix the bug. Yes, you'll have old versions of the user program before the
bug was fixed, but they will *not* look at kernel versions, and the
new versions certainly shouldn't either.
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