Re:2.4.6+ broke vmware (Score 2, Insightful)

The interfaces that 2.4.x exposed to the world have been quite stable during the branch's lifetime. However, the internal interfaces have and always willbe subject to change, and this break VMWare's kernel modules.

It is not the role of the kernel maintainers to cater to commerical software vendors. The kernel hackers want to push out the best standalone product possible, and this involves making modifications to the internal architecture when nessicary. These sorts of changes will break compatibility with kernel modules external to the kernel tree. They are quite aware of this, and are knowingly making the comprimise

Anyways, if you want the kernel evolution to standstill just so your stupid commerical apps will always run the way they always have, why don't you just refrain from upgrading your kernel?

-Bodnar42