Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
Hi Don,
You should bounce your mail to the kernel team as they were not Cc:ed
and the questions are directed to them.
> My main concern is that there seems to be no way for oot modules like
> the vmware modules to sanely keep in step with the kernel ABI. While
Correct.
> this may not be a concern for kernel upstream, it's something that we
> would ideally deal with to avoid issues for our users on upgrades.
Upstream doesn't have a notion of kernel ABI, this is left for the
distributors to handle. This can only work if changes to the ABI don't
get ignored for convenience or any other equally bad reason.
JB.
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