26 Jul
2011
26 Jul
'11
3:18 p.m.
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:45:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
Keep in mind that the Linux kernel itself makes no concessions to backwards compatibility and demands that all related modules be recompiled to match changes.
One of my paragraphs originally included a fairly lengthy passage on kernel ABI compatibility, but I trimmed it out, and I 'genericized' to more than just the one project, and put in parentheses the statement 'partly to prevent closed-source programs from continuing to work' as a more generic thing, more than just binary kernel modules.
It's most assuredly not just the kernel.