On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:56:33 -0500 Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> So the level of stable I think would be needed is basically being able > to ship a new libtraceevent.so and have it not break a powertop that > was linked against a previous version. E.g. libtraceevent.so provided > with the 3.15 kernel release can be used as an update to the > libtraceevent.so from the 3.13 release and powertop doesn't need to be > rebuilt. > > That's typically done with soname and/or symbol versioning. Clearly > applications wishing to use new libtraceevent features would need to > be rebuilt to take advantage of those, but basic functionality should > be pretty stable. Changing soname/ABI happens elsewhere in userspace > libs and isn't a big deal for development, but those bumps typically > aren't done in the middle of a released distro version. There are > several distros that do major kernel version updates during the > lifetime of a release so anything coming from those needs to be > handled carefully. There's a couple of things that need to be cleaned up first, that will affect current users. But they are minor. I think we can work on this soon and get something out by the next release. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
