Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:23:44AM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2010 11:16:33 Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > kABI not API. We're
> talking about KMPs here.
>
> I realize that, but as long as the kernel's API
> for the module hasn't changed, it isn't so important if the ABI changes. You
> can still work out all the build problems, and then when the final ABI is in
> place you just trigger a rebuild, which for a KMP shouldn't take more than a
> few minutes

Of course it's important if the kABI changes. If the kABI for which the KMP
has been built no longer matches the kABI of the installed/updated kernel the
module of the KMP simply cannot be loaded. We do not rebuild KMPs on the
user's machines when kABI has changed. That's not how KMPs work. Instead for
using KMPs kABI *must not* change.

Best regards,
Stefan

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