Re: akmods for EL-5?
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:35 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> 2008/9/5 Neal Becker <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com>:
>> I need to build my akmod for EL-5. Will there be a port of akmods stuff to
>> EL-5?
>
> Is there a sense in having akmod for EL? AFAIK the EL kernel is ABI
> stable. Therefore kmod should be enough.
No the EL kernel is API stable, not ABI stable. Kernel modules always
have a strict dependency on the exact kernel they were compiled against,
and RHEL does push kernel updates regularly (although not as frequently
as Fedora).
Incorrect.
The RHEL kernel *is* ABI-stable for a whitelisted set of symbols. Some
3rd-party kernel modules use symbols not on the whitelist, and thus not
guaranteed stable, but it *is* entirely possible to build a kernel
module against the RHEL5 GA kernel and have it load and run fine on the
latest 5.3 development kernel, if it only uses whitelisted symbols.
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