From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Chris Weiss <cweiss@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Chetan Loke <chetanloke@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
scst-devel <scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010...
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:56:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100824145643.GR12892@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=m15OJg+QsM76r1O74OWjdxht3tqza1DYEeLVw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:51:04AM -0500, Chris Weiss wrote:
> ok now I'm confused, or maybe I'm not understanding ABI correctly, or
> maybe you guys are using it in a way that is inconsistent with popular
> convention. As a VMware user, I have experienced fully that the
> kernel ABI changes in various places with every release. VMwares
> drivers have to be constantly updated to match changes in kernel
> function parameters and even what functions are available.
You're talking about in-kernel ABI, which is constantly in flux. James
is talking about user <-> kernel ABI, which is not supposed to change in
an incompatible way.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 14:58 [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010 Chetan Loke
2010-08-18 15:11 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <AANLkTimJGxn=5kEMH68XVWqFcYG3vpfLjLjZpFGqhG_4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-18 15:30 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-08-18 16:04 ` Chetan Loke
2010-08-18 16:18 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-18 17:50 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-19 1:18 ` jack wang
2010-08-19 21:20 ` Dirk Meister
2010-08-19 22:29 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-08-21 18:42 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-21 20:25 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-08-24 18:08 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-21 20:43 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-22 7:39 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-08-22 20:29 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-23 13:47 ` Joe Landman
2010-08-23 15:12 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <AANLkTim-M6dfLvJQnbieFqZCGG33E+-i+u_soCq2p9f1@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-23 16:07 ` Chetan Loke
2010-08-23 18:03 ` Chetan Loke
2010-08-24 7:25 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-08-24 14:43 ` Linux I/O subsystem performance (was: linuxcon 2010...) Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-24 14:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-24 17:51 ` Linux I/O subsystem performance Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-24 20:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-24 14:55 ` [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010 Chetan Loke
[not found] ` <4C7404C4.4040704@vlnb.net>
2010-08-24 20:31 ` Linux I/O subsystem performance (was: linuxcon 2010...) Chris Worley
2010-08-25 19:12 ` Linux I/O subsystem performance Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-16 15:05 ` Linux I/O subsystem performance (was: linuxcon 2010...) Chris Worley
2010-08-23 19:41 ` [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010 Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-24 14:41 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-24 14:51 ` Chris Weiss
2010-08-24 14:56 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2010-08-25 22:20 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-25 22:45 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-24 14:57 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-24 19:48 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-24 21:23 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-08-26 20:11 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-26 21:23 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-08-28 17:32 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-28 20:47 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-08-30 20:47 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-30 21:46 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-02 19:38 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-02 20:25 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-05 20:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-05 21:50 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-05 23:13 ` Mark Deneen
2010-09-06 0:12 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-06 0:58 ` Mark Deneen
2010-09-06 1:34 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-06 5:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-05 23:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-05 23:59 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-06 4:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-06 10:39 ` James Bottomley
2010-09-06 11:02 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-09-06 11:27 ` James Bottomley
2010-09-06 15:26 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-06 21:47 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-06 21:55 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-09-06 22:14 ` david
2010-09-07 0:44 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-07 3:45 ` Chetan Loke
2010-09-07 6:15 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-09-07 6:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-09-07 6:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-07 6:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-09-07 6:45 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-09-07 13:20 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-07 20:14 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-07 20:14 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-06 21:16 ` Greg KH
2010-09-06 17:28 ` Chetan Loke
2010-09-06 21:52 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-20 13:46 ` Ruben Laban
2010-08-18 17:51 ` Chetan Loke
2010-08-18 16:19 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-08-18 16:28 ` Joe Landman
2010-08-18 17:52 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-18 15:12 ` Chetan Loke
2010-08-18 17:52 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-20 17:40 Ari Lemmke
2010-08-16 16:20 Fwd: Re: [Scst-devel] " Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-17 20:30 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-18 17:52 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-18 20:43 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-21 18:51 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-21 20:38 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-22 22:10 ` [Scst-devel] Fwd: " Gennadiy Nerubayev
2010-08-23 16:59 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-23 17:44 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-08-23 17:58 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-23 20:11 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-08-23 20:21 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-23 19:40 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-23 20:38 ` James Bottomley
2010-08-24 10:32 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-08-24 13:01 ` Chris Weiss
2010-08-24 19:53 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-23 19:40 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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