On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Mike Schmidt mike.schmidt@intello.comwrote:
Hi,
I've generated (via rpmbuild) a patched version of the latest CentoS 6.2 kernel (2.6.32-220.7.1) with the imq patchset ( http://www.linuximq.net/patches.html), but this causes the kABI to break. What can orshould I do about this, if anything? What kinds of changes cause the kABI to break? Would it be reasonable to think I might be able to fix the patch to be kABI compliant? Is the kABI for CentOS the same as the one for the upstream RHEL version? Should I try to patch the kABI (as Oracle does in their unbreakable linux kernel)? What would be the procedure foir this?
Yes, it's the same as the upstream's. You can either fix the code or disable the checks at your own risk.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel#head-566abc4208fceb902d41ee82633... http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487763