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Comment 37 for bug 11368

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:24:28 +0900
From: Horms <email address hidden>
To: Christoph Hellwig <email address hidden>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, Thomas Hood <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#284356: New release changed symbols thus rendering modules unloadable

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:46:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:04:40AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Horms <email address hidden> [2004-12-15 13:28]:
> > > I checked 2.6 upstream and the refcount field is present.
> > > Curiously upstream 2.4 seems to neither include this field nor
> > > a fix for CAN-2004-0814 (N.B not CAN-2004-081 as I misquoted above).
> > > If anyone can correct me there I would be most grateful.
> >
> > Thanks for the analysis. Maybe you could contact upstream and ask why
> > it hasn't been included and also mention this compatibility problem.

I will contact Marcello, but I am not confident of a reply.

> It's not a problem. Linux doesn't gurantee any ABI stability.

Agreed.

--
Horms