Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Sun Oct 10 17:10:38 UTC 2010


maximilian attems <max at stro.at> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:51:33AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Does this change mean that the module builds for Xen and OpenVZ kernels
>> may not continue working with later versions of those kernels because
>> the ABI might not be stable?  Or is this a more limited change that
>> means something more restrictive than that and isn't something we need
>> to worry about?

> indeed makes no sense to built against.
> openvz patch changes it's interfaces randomly, so no point in trying
> to keep it's abi stable.

Thanks!  Is the same also true of Xen?

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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