Re: kernel structures in 2.0.29->2.0.30

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:45:19 +0200

> at least on intel, we should try to maintain module compatability.
> btw, do you know of any binary-only modules besides afs/linux and

Keeping binary compatibility is not always possible anyway. A module
that uses "struct sock" won't even survive a re-configuration of _the
same kernel version_ that toggles CONF_IP_MULTICAST, see the ifdef in
<net/sock.h>. (Which cost me half a day of debugging recently.)

olaf