Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (71 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Greg KH napsal(a):
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:13:34PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 November 2009, Michal Marek wrote:
> > > problem is the new member in struct pcmci_socket. Can we
> > > * just ignore this change (in worst case, some drivers will need a
> > >   rebuild for the next kernel update)
> > I'd choose this option.
> >
> > > * hide the change from genksyms (do external drivers ever need to
> > >   allocate the structure themselves?)
> > That I don't know.  Greg?
>
> I don't know of any that would.  I vote for the "ignore this change" as
> it came from upstream, and any external driver would have to handle it
> anyway.

Ok, let's just whitelist it.


> And anyway, I didn't think we were doing ABI stuff for opensuse kernels,
> is this a change?

The checks have always been there, and in cases where a kabi change
would require rebuilding and re-releasing some commonly used KMPs (it's
not just nvidia & ati, but also some out-of-tree GPL code we distribute)
and working around the change is cheap, we usually do it.

Michal
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