Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes: > The Linux kernel API is remarkably stable.
Actually, I don't think that's the case, speaking as someone who's had to deal with out-of-tree drivers for various reasons. For instance, the OrangeFS module typically broke when I tried to rebuild the package on a new version of Fedora. Even RHEL can break such things with minor releases. > It is indeed the reason we > *can* run GNU Guix on older kernels in the first place - the kernel is > our single dependency. The headers do change, but mostly due to kernel > internals which are not used from glibc etc. It's a hardware driver library, not anything at the libc level.
