Re: [MiNT] freemint-enhancements merge ??

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 11:03 +0200, George Nakos wrote:
> 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.

I'd be even happier if Ozk open sourced it.

Still, I'll be looking at that soon enough as I do want a new one in
"C".

Alan.