On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 02:50:32PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > The ABI rarely changes, if at all. The issue OSV's are seeing is that > upgrading i40e, requires that i40iw be recompiled even though there > were no updates/changes to the ABI.
So fscking what. If you upgrade one part of the kernel you have to rebuild anbything. If people try to get away without that that is their problem, an certainly not something in any way supported by Linux.
