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On 6/10/05, "des" =3D=3D "Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>" wrote:

des> Of course, but you wouldn't be able to run an old userland=20
des> on a new kernel.  I thought that was (much of) the point of=20
des> separating MI from MD.

In the current design the first thing userland has to do is inform
the kernel module about its idea of what the ABI version is.  The=20
kernel module can then choose to either support it or return=20
EPROGMISMATCH.  If it decides to support it, it will need to=20
respect structure sizes corresponding to $CLIENTVERSION.

--=20
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