Notification of ABI breaking updates

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:42 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> >> Some third parties want to provide modules compiled against our
> >> stable release kernels.  To make this process more streamlined, I'm
> >> wondering if some sort of announcement could be made when ABI
> >> breaking updates are afoot (like e.g. when they're uploaded to
> >> -proposed or to the security buildd) or when they actually land (in
> >> case of embargoed uploads which we - obviously - can't announce ahead
> >> of time)?
>  
> >> If you have better ideas, please shout.
> > Would probably be best to just have them sub to a list that provides
> > this information, and filter on the kernel itself. We don't have
> > anything in place to announce this.
> 
> Does such a list exist? -changes doesn't show things until they're
> uploaded and they'd like to know ahead of time so that they can have
> their modules ready when our kernels are. I've not been able to find an
> announcement list for uploads to -proposed.

Until it's uploaded, there's no stable ABI for them to compile against,
so that's a rather pointless request.

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