linux-kernel - Re: Incompatibilities of kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707232001090.1864@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:02:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
cc:	werner <werner@...aya.yi.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Incompatibilities of kmem_cache_create

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Paul Mundt wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:50:01AM -0300, werner wrote:
> > Of the kernel 2.6.22-git15 of this night,  kmem_cache_create is not
> > compatible and causes compiling errors of some fundamental programs.
> > Before, this error didnt occur.
> > 
> Slab destructors haven't been supported in the kernel for ages, anything
> that's relying on them to work out-of-tree is fundamentally broken.

Slab destructors were supported and used in Linux kernels up to 
version 2.6.20. They were removed late in the 2.6.21 merge cycle.


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