Avi Kivity wrote: > James Morris wrote: >> It's traditional for the mainline kernel to maintain backward >> compatibility with existing userspace ABIs (e.g. syscalls). >> >> The idea of a userspace application breaking because of a mainline >> kernel upgrade is not acceptable to users and also pretty much >> unsupportable by distros. >> > > That is of course very true, and it is a goal of kvm to have a stable > userspace interface. I plan to target 2.6.21 as the stable ABI release. >
As the alert reader will have guessed, this is now postponed to 2.6.22. I will provide a nonintrusive patch backporting the stable ABI to 2.6.21 if desired. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
