Re: Speaking of kernel modules versioning...

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

> The Module API may be the same between versions, but the ABI (B for Binary) is 
> not; in fact, it is intentionally not possible to do what you are asking.
> 
> NVIDIA, for example, has a "wrapper" around their binary module that must be 
> compiled for a given kernel - all it does, essentially, is map the ABI to 
> something static for the nvidia.ko, to work around this problem.

This makes sense.  Thanks for the info on ABI  :)  I'll just request EMC
change their Powerpath software to support relinking against the
installed kernel.

/Brian/

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