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Bug#284356: New release changed symbols thus rendering modules unloadable



On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:24:28PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:46:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:04:40AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > * Horms <horms@debian.org> [2004-12-15 13:28]:
> > > > I checked 2.6 upstream and the refcount field is present.
> > > > Curiously upstream 2.4 seems to neither include this field nor
> > > > a fix for CAN-2004-0814 (N.B not CAN-2004-081 as I misquoted above). 
> > > > If anyone can correct me there I would be most grateful.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the analysis.  Maybe you could contact upstream and ask why
> > > it hasn't been included and also mention this compatibility problem.
> 
> I will contact Marcello, but I am not confident of a reply.

Hi Martin,

I shouldn't have been so pesemistic. I did indeed get a reply.
Several in fact.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/15/299

In a nutshell:
  1. This patch wasn't put into 2.4.28 because it was quite
     intrusive and came out to late in the 2.4.28 cycle
  2. It is planed for inclusion (in 2.4.29 I assume)
  3. There are some updates to the patch both available and pending,
     I will make sure we get those, but broadly speaking
     the patch is unchanged. Actually, I notice that one of the
     uptades will most likely introduce a futher ABI change
     by adding "struct semaphore termios_sem;" to strut tty_struct.
     It would be good to get that in if we are going to increment
     the so number.

     http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/11/7/106

-- 
Horms



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