Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 21:46 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 21.11.2011 21:32, schrieb Till Maas:
> > 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?
> 
> virtualbox is not part of fedora
> and vmware is running great after some changes of version.checks
> but vmware is also not part of fedora
> 
> better breaking some non-distribution-stuff than as happened with
> F14 that current intel machiens with sandy-bridge was not supportted
> and forced eople with new hardware way too early to F15/systemd

This is a non-argument: kernels 2.6.40.x/3.x broke dual head/xrandr[1]
and WLAN[1] for me (on Intel hardware, FWIW).

Nils

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731296
[2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732592
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