On Mon, 22 May 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > But wrt. binary compatibility, the vdso (ignoring for a moment that it's > tied to other parts of glibc) is kind of border line. Nothing but glibc > knows about its internal structure. So i dont think "binary > compatibility" per se is violated: no app breaks. This is more analogous > to the situation where say old modutils cannot read new modules and the > kernel wont boot at all. No it's not. This is totally different from a 2.4.x -> 2.6.x breakage. This is about a kernel that used to work (2.6.16) and one that would not (2.6.17). It's _that_ simple. No ifs, buts, maybe's or anything else. Linus
