Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:39:27 -0500 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering |
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Dave Jones (davej@redhat.com) said: > > [*] I don't know any details of the /proc incompatibility which davej > > mentions, and I'd like to. That sounds like a screw-up. > > We changed the format of /proc/slabinfo. Running slabtop threw up > an error message complaining that the format had changed. > > It was a graceful failure, but a failure none-the-less. > > Other failures have been somewhat more dramatic. > I know ipsec-tools, and alsa-lib have both caused pain > on at least one occasion after the last 2-3 kernel updates.
The ones I remember were:
- alsa-lib, as mentioned - ipsec-tools/openswan needed updating when the kernel changed to require forward SAs - a old script on an earlier release needed fixed when usbdevfs finally went from being deprecated to dead
SELinux changed froom 2.6.early to 2.6.current as well, IIRC.
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