Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-14 release

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
>> It's traditional for the mainline kernel to maintain backward 
>> compatibility with existing userspace ABIs (e.g. syscalls).
>>
>> The idea of a userspace application breaking because of a mainline 
>> kernel upgrade is not acceptable to users and also pretty much 
>> unsupportable by distros.
>>   
>
> That is of course very true, and it is a goal of kvm to have a stable 
> userspace interface.  I plan to target 2.6.21 as the stable ABI release.
>

As the alert reader will have guessed, this is now postponed to 2.6.22.  
I will provide a nonintrusive patch backporting the stable ABI to 2.6.21 
if desired.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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