On 2017-02-28 14:55, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> Then, isn't this a kernel bug? I mean, the ABI has changed, so that >> the number should have changed to 4.9.0-3 instead of remaining at >> 4.9.0-2. > > It's within the kernel team prerogatives to decide what ABI to keep > stable and what not. > I assume that no free software kernel module was impacted, so it was > decided not to bump the ABI version. > We cannot expect the kernel team to do additional work to specifically > support proprietary modules.
Are the kernel maintainers aware of this abi break? Andreas
