[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [MiNT] freemint-enhancements merge ??



Hello Alan,

Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 10:53:31 AM, you wrote:

> To be honest, I don't think we should be trying to support older XFS
> modules (or even XDD etc) from older kernels with a new kernel. They
> should be stamped with a kernel version and only work with that kernel
> version to avoid problems. 

> Linux started out like this and now has very strict versioning of kernel
> modules with the installed kernel, and we should at least version ours
> too.

> Comments ?

As long as useful/critical modules aren't left out (for example: I'd hate to see
Ozk's ethernec driver -which is close sourced iirc- left out of the new kernel),
I'm ok with this.

-- 
Best regards,
 George                            mailto:ggn@hol.gr