On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:51:04AM -0500, Chris Weiss wrote: > ok now I'm confused, or maybe I'm not understanding ABI correctly, or > maybe you guys are using it in a way that is inconsistent with popular > convention. As a VMware user, I have experienced fully that the > kernel ABI changes in various places with every release. VMwares > drivers have to be constantly updated to match changes in kernel > function parameters and even what functions are available. You're talking about in-kernel ABI, which is constantly in flux. James is talking about user <-> kernel ABI, which is not supposed to change in an incompatible way. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
