On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes, I too find it very inconvinient that the kernel in 7.2 is explicitely > binary incompatible with the kernel in 7.1. > > For example, some ELREPO kernel modules will not load because "they are > for 7.1". > > Do we must have ELREPO-7.1, ELREPO-7.2, etc? > > With luck this will settle soon enough, but I did not see any explanation > for this binary incompatibility, > Regarding "incompatibility" of ELRepo's kmod packages, it all boils down to the kABI (Kernel Application Binary Interface). Please take a look at this blog for more details: http://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2016/02/kabi-tracking-kmod-packages.html It explains why some packages are not backward compatible. Akemi
