On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Mike Schmidt <mike.schmidt at intello.com>wrote: > 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-566abc4208fceb902d41ee82633f509dbf386a4d http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487763 -- Giovanni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20120418/86b4fe5e/attachment-0007.html>