Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: At that time it turned out, that Linus does not seem to be able to understand what changes may break an interface.

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-22 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:27:45AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, it seemt that you are confusing user-interfaces with kernel-internal-interfaces :-( I was of course writing about a kernel - user interface that need to stay stable as the problem has been identified with cdrtools and

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-22 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:27:45AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, it seemt that you are confusing user-interfaces with kernel-internal-interfaces :-( I was of course writing about a kernel - user interface that need to stay stable as the problem has been identified with cdrtools and

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/20/2013 02:40:16 PM, walt wrote: Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;) Virtualbox-modules

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: I cannot speak for your specific case, but I know that Linus definitely did break the SCSI generic pass through interface in Linux several times and one time this was done while integrating his personal code. At that time

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-21 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: At that time it turned out, that Linus does not seem to be able to understand what changes may break an interface. The real problem however was that he was not

[gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread walt
Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;) Virtualbox-modules fails to build against today's kernel.git

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
2013/2/20 walt w41...@gmail.com Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;) Virtualbox-modules fails

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/20/2013 01:40 PM, walt wrote: Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:40 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;)