On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:06:42AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 01:47 +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm working on some to-be-proposed updates to the kernel module > > packaging in Fedora Extras to allow us to track changes to the kernel > > ABI rather than purely the kernel release/version. This should make > > life easier and help to reduce the number of times that a minor kernel > > update (e.g. security fixes, etc.) forces all external drivers to be > > rebuilt. > > I'm not so sure this will work for Fedora. The ABI in the kernel is > utterly inconsistent, and no work is being done upstream to try and keep > the ABI consistent or predictable. I'd go as far as to say for Fedora, there *is no* kernel ABI, nor is it practical to make one. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
