From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM fixes for 2.6.26-rc7 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:03:58 +0300 Message-ID: <48675E0E.1020204@qumranet.com> References: <48616182.9030902@qumranet.com> <20080625191723.GA20531@dmt.cnet> <48633511.8000403@redhat.com> <200806261045.57192.bernd-schubert@gmx.de> <48639027.2040607@codemonkey.ws> <4863911F.5090807@qumranet.com> <20080626131257.GD21543@ralph.linux2go.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Bernd Schubert , Gerd Hoffmann , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Soren Hansen Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:39893 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752477AbYF2KD7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:03:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080626131257.GD21543@ralph.linux2go.dk> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Soren Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:52:47PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>> The ubuntu kernel has a newer KVM module backported to it so it's >>> really 2.6.25-rcX. >>> >> That's a big no-no. We only guarantee binary compatibility for >> kernel.org releases. kvm-blah releases may break compatibility >> temporarily as issues are worked out. >> > > I thought there was an ABI check of sorts in place that should take care > of this? > > There is, but it doesn't differentiate between variants of the ABI as it evolves. We probably ought to fix this by appending _EXPERIMENTAL to extensions while they are developed (or better, by considering at the result of KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION as a version number rather than a bool). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function