2011/11/22 Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org>: > The kernel ABI is the syscall interface, /sys and /proc. There is no > stable module ABI between kernels - even with a small security update, > the symbol versioning may change in such a way that the module ABI will > change. Given that any interpretation of the stable update policy that > prevented us from ever providing kernel security updates would be > absurd, that's clearly not the correct interpretation. And if the module > ABI isn't supported, nor is the API. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org > --
The failure is due to Fedora *non-upstream* versionning scheme, VirtualBox has *already* fixes the API/ABI issue upstream relying on the kernel version (since 3.2 RC). It has nothing to do with the kernel non-stable ABI policy (which is notorious). The least we can do is helping third-party packagers to fix this issue, not slamming the door on their face. H. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
