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Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.



On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:20:05AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:31:57PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > I think policy should reccomend third-party modules to be installed
> > > in the the directory common for all kernels with the same minor
> > > release.
> > 
> > How do you handle the case when the module in question only works with a
> > subset of the kernels (let say a 2.4.x module will only work ith kernels
> > later than 2.4.7 or something such ?).
> 
> Reccomend - not mandate. If the modules have these tight dependencies
> on the running kernel version, the maintainer can (and should) opt not
> to follow that reccomandation.

Mmm, but in the case of the modules being compatible with all of 2.4.x,
starting from an early version of it, it does make sense to put them in
a common place. The range of supported kernels can be quite huge.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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