Hacking modversions

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:43 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> This solves the following problem:
> 
> Bill sets up a Linux system for Sally. She does a "yum upgrade" because
> she knows it's important to stay up to date to be secure. The kernel is
> changed, and as a result various things break even though the update was
> fixing a race condition in a syscall implementation. She does not
> know how to fix it. 

Bill was wrong here to leave Sally with a Linux system which relies on
stuff which is not in the standard kernel. If she's going to use binary-
only crap he might as well have installed Windows for her.

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dwmw2