Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Mads Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I guess my questions are: > > 1) Is there some way around the module becoming outdated with each and > > every kernel update? and if not > > Such is the pain of maintaining out-of-tree kernel modules. It sucks, I know. > > One thing that we do with our kernel modules, to make this easier, is > we set the version to "2.6.27" instead of "2.6.27.8" so that when .9 > is released, we don't need to rebuild all modules (they still need to > be tested, however)
That's just trying to circumvent the restrictions that the kernel imposes on out-of-tree modules. A kernel API could be changed between minor versions too, and if a module uses a newer API call with older values, it would result in an oops. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com
