Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 12:08 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Julien BLACHE wrote: I think it would be best if this matter would be decided upon before the release of Squeeze, or not too long after it, so as to avoid further breakages in early kernel updates for Squeeze. I

Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 12:08 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Julien BLACHE wrote: I think it would be best if this matter would be decided upon before the release of Squeeze, or not too long after it, so as to avoid further

Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: So currently there is no guarantee that a specific ABI maintains any kind of compatibility for out of tree modules; it is a best effort based on the kernel maintainer's understanding of what symbols have changed and what out of tree (or even in-tree)

Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 12:23 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 12:08 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Julien BLACHE wrote: I think it would be best if this matter would be decided upon before the release of

Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 15:55 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 12:23 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: or possibly by using Breaks: for all of the affected out-of-tree modules where the change wasn't wide-spread enough to bump the ABI