Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 05:09, schrieb Kevin Kofler: I know the post I'm replying to is off-topic, but just to clarify the part which may be relevant for Fedora packages: Reindl Harald wrote: below a list of packages which i maintain locally mots of them only cpu-optimized rebuilds many of them

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:07:10 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: but they are often way behind current versions (ffmpeg, x264, open-vm-tools) and then throw out a new x264, rebuild all packages depending on it and rais only from .114 to .115 is a bad joke while .119 exists since

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 12:27, schrieb Stijn Hoop: On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:07:10 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: but they are often way behind current versions (ffmpeg, x264, open-vm-tools) and then throw out a new x264, rebuild all packages depending on it and rais only from .114 to

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: my only changes was compile the x264.119 and fake the so-number in the sources to .102 for F13/F14 and to .114/.115 for F15 and currently the .120 to 115 Changing soversions is a very bad idea, upstream probably bumped them for a reason. Kevin Kofler -- devel

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 17:04, schrieb Kevin Kofler: Reindl Harald wrote: my only changes was compile the x264.119 and fake the so-number in the sources to .102 for F13/F14 and to .114/.115 for F15 and currently the .120 to 115 Changing soversions is a very bad idea, upstream probably bumped them

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:02:26 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 08.12.2011 17:04, schrieb Kevin Kofler: Reindl Harald wrote: my only changes was compile the x264.119 and fake the so-number in the sources to .102 for F13/F14 and to .114/.115 for F15 and currently the .120

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
2011/12/8 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net: Am 08.12.2011 17:04, schrieb Kevin Kofler: Reindl Harald wrote: my only changes was compile the x264.119 and fake the so-number in the sources to .102 for F13/F14 and to .114/.115 for F15 and currently the .120 to 115 Changing soversions is

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: nonsense they HAD the manpower to do this rebuilds for so.114 to so.115 so WTF why they jumping to a outdated version instead so.119? doing such nonsense and after that whine about to few manpower is a little bit

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 21:42, schrieb Jef Spaleta: I'm saying this as politely as I can. Move this into the appropriate rpmfusion development communication channel and out of here. and i am saying it NOT polite WAS I THE PERSON WHO RESTARTED THIS THREAD? NO I WAS NOT! so please pissoff people who

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 21:55 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.12.2011 21:42, schrieb Jef Spaleta: I'm saying this as politely as I can. Move this into the appropriate rpmfusion development communication channel and out of here. and i am saying it NOT polite WAS I THE PERSON WHO

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 22:03, schrieb Adam Williamson: On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 21:55 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.12.2011 21:42, schrieb Jef Spaleta: I'm saying this as politely as I can. Move this into the appropriate rpmfusion development communication channel and out of here. and i am saying

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
I know the post I'm replying to is off-topic, but just to clarify the part which may be relevant for Fedora packages: Reindl Harald wrote: below a list of packages which i maintain locally mots of them only cpu-optimized rebuilds many of them changed * services MUST NOT restart while update

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-05 Thread Josh Stone
On 11/28/2011 12:47 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:06:32 -0800 Josh Stone jist...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/22/2011 09:51 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: -#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(3, 1, 0) It may have be helpful for the faked 2.6.4x kernels to still present a

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-05 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:32 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: On 11/28/2011 12:47 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:06:32 -0800 Josh Stone jist...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/22/2011 09:51 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: -#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(3, 1, 0) It may have

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-05 Thread Josh Stone
On 12/05/2011 01:05 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, Now I'm co-maintaining VirtualBox on rpmfusion you got on my external link VB 4.1.4 for F15 http://www.serjux.com/virtualbox/ if you try it let me know , I grabbed and extracted just the kmodsrc, all the modules within now build fine. So the

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-05 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:41 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: On 12/05/2011 01:05 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: Hi, Now I'm co-maintaining VirtualBox on rpmfusion you got on my external link VB 4.1.4 for F15 http://www.serjux.com/virtualbox/ if you try it let me know , I grabbed and extracted just

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-12-05 Thread Josh Stone
On 12/05/2011 05:09 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:41 -0800, Josh Stone wrote: I grabbed and extracted just the kmodsrc, all the modules within now build fine. So the new version information is doing the right thing, representing itself as a normal 3.1 kernel internally.

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-28 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:06:32 -0800 Josh Stone jist...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/22/2011 09:51 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: -#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(3, 1, 0) It may have be helpful for the faked 2.6.4x kernels to still present a 3ish LINUX_VERSION_CODE. AFAIK, faking the

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-28 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: that is not the point You are missing the point as well. Regardless of whether or not you have a valid gripe about rpmfusion's volunteer effort... this is absolutely not the place to voice your concerns. It is very

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.11.2011 02:23, schrieb Richard Shaw: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/2011 10:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so complain rpmfusion why they are ALWAYS behind the fedora-kernel-packages and all their kmod and so on are making troubles days

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 21:46 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.11.2011 21:32, schrieb Till Maas: Hi, a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. The removal of the file was noticed during testing, but it seems nobody

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 11/21/2011 09:32 PM, Till Maas wrote: a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. This is a part of the in-kernel API, not the kernel-userspace interface. The internal API can change at any time. External kernel modules can

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:59:54PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: The updates policy is meant to protect users of Fedora within reason. Compiling, writing, and using third party software on Fedora is a valid use of Fedora whether or not that software exists within Fedora. This update may be

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.11.2011 01:59, schrieb Toshio Kuratomi: The updates policy is meant to protect users of Fedora within reason. Compiling, writing, and using third party software on Fedora is a valid use of Fedora whether or not that software exists within Fedora. This update may be acceptable because

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:08:07PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:59:54PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: The updates policy is meant to protect users of Fedora within reason. Compiling, writing, and using third party software on Fedora is a valid use of Fedora

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:12:42AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:08:07PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: We don't support out of tree kernel modules at all, so they're not considered when making the determination about whether an update is appropriate for a stable

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 04:23:28PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:12:42AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:08:07PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: We don't support out of tree kernel modules at all, so they're not considered when making the

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread 80
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

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:53:13AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: According to the updates policy the maintainer needs to consider that their change will cause problems for third party kernel module packagers and end users that are compiling their own kernel modules. We *know* we're going

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:00:43PM +0100, 80 wrote: 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

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2011 12:13 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:00:43PM +0100, 80 wrote: 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

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Genes MailLists wrote: For those having trouble - one pragmatic way is just to download the f16 3.1.x source rpm and rebuild it on F15 - VB will now work fine. You don't need to do that. Just use my attached patch. (Only use the patch on F15 systems with F15 kernels.) ---

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Just use my attached patch. It helps if I attach the correct patch. --- /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost/vboxpci/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c.orig 2011-08-09 01:30:24.0 -0500 +++ /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost/vboxpci/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c 2011-11-22

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:08:14PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:53:13AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: According to the updates policy the maintainer needs to consider that their change will cause problems for third party kernel module packagers and end users that

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:55:59AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: So, yes, it may be fully expected that issuing an update will break out of tree modules but that doesn't stop it from being one factor to *consider*. Consideration implies that the following thought process will occur This

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:08:14PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:53:13AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:   According to the updates policy the   maintainer needs to consider that their change will

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Thomas Moschny
2011/11/22 Dave Jones da...@redhat.com: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:55:59AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Consideration implies that the following thought process will occur This update will break out of tree modules, perhaps we shouldn't push it. That isn't going to happen. To me, this

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08:18AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 05:12:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: I don't know how much clearer I can make this. The update policy applies to the supported ABI of the package. For instance, if I have an application that

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.11.2011 18:00, schrieb 80: 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

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:24:20PM +0100, Thomas Moschny wrote: 2011/11/22 Dave Jones da...@redhat.com: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:55:59AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Consideration implies that the following thought process will occur This update will break out of tree modules,

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:28:06PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08:18AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 05:12:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: I don't know how much clearer I can make this. The update policy applies to the supported ABI

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:49:28AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:28:06PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Consuming the output of ls is a supported way to use ls. Building third party modules is not a supported way to use the kernel. That's not the criteria I see

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: We have considered it. A really long time ago. At that time, it was decided that we consider out-of-tree modules to be something we don't support, don't care about, and won't hold up updates for because of the aforementioned

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:57:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:49:28AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:28:06PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Consuming the output of ls is a supported way to use ls. Building third party modules is not

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:44:59AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:57:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: So just to be clear on this, you believe that if a user is relying on byte 0x9e0 of /bin/ls to be 0xdf on x86_64, then that is something that would have to be

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
What's the story with this VirtualBox driver ... why can't it go upstream? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 10:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so complain rpmfusion why they are ALWAYS behind the fedora-kernel-packages and all their kmod and so on are making troubles days and weeks before they are push at fedora-stable repo, so the rpmfusion-maintainers should consider to use

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:53:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:44:59AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:57:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: This case requires no clarification. The fact that you and I are continuing to argue about

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: What's the story with this VirtualBox driver ... why can't it go upstream? Because Oracle hasn't submitted it. Guesses as to their reasoning for that mostly boil down to them no longer being able to ship the userspace

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 22/11/2011 21:10, Josh Boyer a écrit : Because Oracle hasn't submitted it. Guesses as to their reasoning for that mostly boil down to them no longer being able to ship the userspace and driver code in a single version and make whatever API/ABI changes they wish to between releases. josh

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:09:26PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:53:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: No. You're simply interpreting things incorrectly. *sigh* You miss the point. I'm perfectly willing to be interpreting it incorrectly. The problem is that

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:28:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:09:26PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:53:12PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: No. You're simply interpreting things incorrectly. *sigh* You miss the point. I'm

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:50:40PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:28:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: If you interpret The ABI as Any property of the binary that another package could conceivably depend on then your position makes sense. But since nobody would

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:53:33PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:50:40PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:28:30PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: If you interpret The ABI as Any property of the binary that another package could conceivably

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Thomas Moschny
2011/11/22 Matthew Garrett m...@redhat.com: If you interpret The ABI as Any property of the binary that another package could conceivably depend on then your position makes sense. But since nobody would interpret it that way, the obvious conclusion is that The ABI means The supported ABI.

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: We have considered it.  A really long time ago.  At that time, it was decided that we consider out-of-tree modules to be something we don't support, don't care

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:44:26PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:53:33PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Really. Use common sense. You appear to be the only person who's strongly confused on this issue.

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/2011 10:34 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: so complain rpmfusion why they are ALWAYS behind the fedora-kernel-packages and all their kmod and so on are making troubles days and weeks before they are push at

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-21 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 21/11/2011 21:32, Till Maas a écrit : Hi, a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. The removal of the file was noticed during testing, but it seems nobody noticed that this affects VirtualBox. Is this kind of change

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.11.2011 21:32, schrieb Till Maas: Hi, a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. The removal of the file was noticed during testing, but it seems nobody noticed that this affects VirtualBox. Is this kind of change

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Till Maas wrote: a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. The removal of the file was noticed during testing, but it seems nobody noticed that this affects VirtualBox. Is this kind of change sanctioned by the current update

Re: Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

2011-11-21 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:58:32PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Till Maas wrote: a recent kernel update[0] broke Fedora's ability to be a VirtualBox host, because asm/amd_iommu.h was removed. The removal of the file was noticed during testing, but it seems nobody noticed that this