Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268058AbUJJCbb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:31:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268072AbUJJCbb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:31:31 -0400 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([136.201.105.4]:2466 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268058AbUJJCb2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:31:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:31:26 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie X-X-Sender: airlied@skynet To: Jon Smirl Cc: dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch] drm core internal versioning.. In-Reply-To: <9e47339104100917527993026d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9e47339104100917527993026d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1315 Lines: 32 > How strong of match requirement do we need? Note that this only > impacts distribution of binary personality modules, if you have source > there is no problem. Not really I'm thinking more of someone building a module against one core and insmodding it against another one.. so someone builds a kernel with core/personality, then builds just a personality module from CVS and tries to use it with the kernel core one... personally I think binary distributors have the money to keep up with the kernel releases.... I don't want to re-implement kernel modversions which is what we are close to doing, you can't insmod a module built against a different kernel anyways so it doesn't matter, kernel version, preempt, smp, compiler are all checked on insmod in 2.6 if they don't match it doesn't load it is not possible to distrib a binarry kernel independent module.. without at least a portable stub source loader... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person - 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/