Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262726AbVCDA1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:27:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262750AbVCDAHw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:07:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53923 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262760AbVCCXkg (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:40:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:39:27 -0500 From: Bill Nottingham To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Andries Brouwer , davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303233927.GA15850@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Andries Brouwer , davem@davemloft.net, jgarzik@pobox.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <20050303011151.GJ10124@redhat.com> <20050302172049.72a0037f.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303012707.GK10124@redhat.com> <20050303145846.GA5586@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050303130901.655cb9c4.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303212115.GJ29371@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050303212115.GJ29371@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1109 Lines: 29 Dave Jones (davej@redhat.com) said: > > [*] I don't know any details of the /proc incompatibility which davej > > mentions, and I'd like to. That sounds like a screw-up. > > We changed the format of /proc/slabinfo. Running slabtop threw up > an error message complaining that the format had changed. > > It was a graceful failure, but a failure none-the-less. > > Other failures have been somewhat more dramatic. > I know ipsec-tools, and alsa-lib have both caused pain > on at least one occasion after the last 2-3 kernel updates. The ones I remember were: - alsa-lib, as mentioned - ipsec-tools/openswan needed updating when the kernel changed to require forward SAs - a old script on an earlier release needed fixed when usbdevfs finally went from being deprecated to dead SELinux changed froom 2.6.early to 2.6.current as well, IIRC. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/