Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751309AbWHCUi5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:38:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751322AbWHCUi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:38:56 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:20493 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbWHCUi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:38:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:29:29 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Alan Cox Cc: Zachary Amsden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , greg@kroah.com, Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo Subject: Re: A proposal - binary Message-ID: <20060803202929.GA8776@1wt.eu> References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <1154611272.23655.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1154611272.23655.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 23 On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:21:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > So how does this differ from the twice yearly recycling of the fixed > driver ABI discussion ? > > We have a facility for loading binary blobs into the kernel built from > source, its called insmod. I think that the issue Zach tried to cover is the current inability to keep the same binary module across multiple kernel versions. That's why he compared modules<->kernel to ELF<->glibc. In that sense, he's right. I'm very happy when I find that old binaries I built with gcc-2.7.2 in 1997 still run under my glibc-2.3.6 without any need to rebuild (and potentially rebuild gcc-2.7.2 first). > Alan Willy - 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/