lvm is a good one , bpftrace and other tools that might rely on kernel hooks , or something specific module or statically compiled feature , but as Ralf said , the vast majority of user land applications can be used interchangeably with different kernels .
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 11:59, lacsaP Patatetom <patate...@gmail.com> wrote: > thank you for your feedback Ralf which is in line with Genes' explanations. > > the application that could fall into the mentioned category and that I am > paying attention to is lvm, but previous tests show that this is not the > case (the lvm2 package provided by ArchLinux behaves as expected with the > recompiled modified kernel). > > regards, lacsaP. > > > > Le lun. 20 mars 2023 à 12:49, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mard...@riseup.net> a > écrit : > >> On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 12:27 +0100, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: >> > if I understand correctly, I can install my package linux-lts-perso- >> > 6.1.15-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, boot on it (eg. "my" kernel) and continue >> > to use the binaries present on my system while they have not been >> > compiled with its (new) headers and especially for the binaries that >> > call the functions present in the blk-core.c file ? >> >> I still don't know if I understand you and >> https://www.google.com/search?q=translate doesn't help. >> >> You can install >> >> core/linux-lts 6.1.20-1 >> core/linux-lts-docs 6.1.20-1 >> core/linux-lts-headers 6.1.20-1 >> >> and also your >> >> linux-lts-perso 6.1.15-2 >> linux-lts-perso-docs 6.1.15-2 >> linux-lts-perso-headers 6.1.15-2 >> >> neither the version, nor the pkgrel matter. >> You can run one or the other kernel and you can build modules for what >> ever kernel you like, see >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support#Rebuild_modules >> . >> >> You (usually) can use a binary such as /usr/bin/vim with one or the >> other kernel, but you might need to build modules to use something like >> virtualbox. >> >> In your case something like systemd or xorg is irrelevant, but something >> like this might depend closer on kernel versions, than vim does. >> >> Regards, >> Ralf >> >
