From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Dec 9 04:05:56 2009 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:03:55 +0200 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1148282448.20091209110355@hol.gr> To: Alan Hourihane CC: Miro Kropacek , mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] freemint-enhancements merge ?? In-Reply-To: <1260348811.20336.980.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> References: <1260310069.20336.330.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1260348811.20336.980.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1253 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10137/Wed Dec 9 06:07:30 2009 on takeit02.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id nB995tTa032370 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