Re: Potentially serious problem with kernel-headers...
Monty <xiphmont@mit.edu> writes:
> >If I understand the problem correctly (and I don't have the time right
> >now to consider this carefully, so take this with a grain of salt),
>
> You do not understand the problem correctly.
>
> (Sorry to be so up front about it :-)
No problem. As I said, I thought I might have been speaking too
soon...
> Thou shalt *not* modify kernel interfaces in a minor release
> version. Hell, one should only do it when there's a really damned
> good reason, and then *still* not do it.
Assuming that this is what happened, I agree, backward incompatible
kernel (public) data structures are a real mess.
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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