Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265661AbTIJU2Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:28:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265664AbTIJU2Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:28:24 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:19975 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265661AbTIJU2X (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:28:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F5F8E90.4020701@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:50:24 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: James Clark , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability References: <1062637356.846.3471.camel@cube> <200309042114.45234.jimwclark@ntlworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 15 I just have one quick question about all of this: People mention that driver interfaces don't change much in stable releases, but if memory serves, symbol versioning information changes with each minor release, requiring a recompile of modules. Would it be possible to have a driver module which can be dropped into, say, 2.6.17 that can also be dropped into 2.6.18 as long as the interface doesn't change? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/