On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:12:42AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:08:07PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > We don't support out of tree kernel modules at all, so they're not > > considered when making the determination about whether an update is > > appropriate for a stable update. > > > Nonsense. We don't support them but the updates policy as written covers > them. I quoted the places in the policy in my other mail. If you don't > like what the updates policy says then change the updates policy to remove, > amend, or clarify those sections. The kernel ABI is the syscall interface, /sys and /proc. There is no stable module ABI between kernels - even with a small security update, the symbol versioning may change in such a way that the module ABI will change. Given that any interpretation of the stable update policy that prevented us from ever providing kernel security updates would be absurd, that's clearly not the correct interpretation. And if the module ABI isn't supported, nor is the API. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
