On Wednesday 19 July 2006 18:37, Axel Thimm wrote:
I wished I had been involved at that time to argue against this
unfortunate change, but probably it was during the "cold war" where
most people including myself had run out of batteries and could not
try to save the world anymore :)
Anyway it's never too late, I'm optimistic about the new world
order.
This becomes important as kernel ABI starts working, and you can build a
module for a given kernel ABI and have it work on any new (or old) kernel
that maintains the same ABI. No longer will modules be locked to a specific
kernel version, and thus uname -r becomes irrelevant. I do believe Jon
Masters is giving a talk on this at OLS.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora