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.