Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!
Oh, hell. I hate it when I have to retract a statement
like this. Looks like I was _very_ wrong (big surprise
there, huh?) about the OSS drivers. Either I didn't find
this page before, or the info wasn't as _blatantly_ obvious
as it is now (possibility). But, in any event, here it is:
http://www.4front-tech.com/linux-x86.html
It discusses how to deal w/ kernel version
incompatibilities by enabling mod_versions during kernel
config.
One curiosity, though, is the section where it talks about
the drivers tendency to not like things like the 'ac-xx)
patch modifications, in that it looks at the name and only
looks for the base kernel release, and doesn't recognize
stuff like Alan Cox's patches. Wonder how it does w/
Debians make-kpkg and the naming conventions. May have to
leave off the '--revision=custom.x.x) bit.
I may d/l and try this tonite. Figure it can't be any
worse than what I've gone thru already.
Monte
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Monte Milanuk
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