Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

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Le 21/11/2011 21:32, Till Maas a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox
> host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. The removal of the file was
> noticed during testing, but it seems nobody noticed that this affects
> VirtualBox. Is this kind of change sanctioned by the
> current update criteria?
>
> Kind regards
> Till
>
> [0] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15856/kernel-2.6.41.1-1.fc15

This has been fixed upstream but F15 kernel is a specific case since it 
doesn't follow upstream versionning. If we were shipping VirtualBox, 
this would be quite trivial to fix but we don't (maybe upstream or third 
party packagers may fix their F15 packages accordingly)
http://repo.or.cz/w/virtualbox.git/commit/7456c49fab948cdf02fec626fe87c4e764d75901

best regards,
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