Paul Wouters wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I thought RHEL made some effort to avoid breaking the 3rd party modules that
> their customers rely on with every kernel update (and that's probably a very
> large reason they have customers...) while Linus and fedora refuse to provide
> a stable interface.
>
>> One "bright" idea was
>> to let Fedora come up with a way to make it better.
> You mean - like actually define an interface and stick to it at least through
> a kernel major revision number?
Hear hear! Being able to do:
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,22)
and having that work properly on both Linus and RedHat kernels would be
a huge win. Right now for openswan, these are all off-by-one for
RedHat kernels.
We actually fixed that just a few weeks ago in rawhide, and carried the
changes back to the 2.6.22.1 kernels in FC6 and F7.
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Jarod Wilson
jwilson(a)redhat.com