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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Incompatibilities of kmem_cache_create
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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.