Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751103AbWE2PxO (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 11:53:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751110AbWE2PxN (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 11:53:13 -0400 Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:40940 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbWE2PxN (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 11:53:13 -0400 Message-ID: <447B18DB.3030805@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:52:59 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050427 Red Hat/1.7.7-1.1.3.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: 4Front Technologies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bidulock@openss7.org, Lee Revell , Heiko Carstens Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? References: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> <1148653797.3579.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060528130320.GA10385@osiris.ibm.com> <1148835799.3074.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148838738.21094.65.camel@mindpipe> <1148839964.3074.52.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148846131.27461.14.camel@mindpipe> <20060528224402.A13279@openss7.org> <1148878368.3291.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <447A883C.5070604@opensound.com> <1148883077.3291.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1148883077.3291.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 May 2006 15:53:03.0915 (UTC) FILETIME=[F85137B0:01C68337] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1027 Lines: 23 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote: > >>BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think >>distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have. > why not? It's not like it's a dramatic change of API after all... (and > even if it were...) > > external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the > cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot. Speaking from personal experience...there are a LOT of 3rd party drivers out there that do not build their modules properly. It gets especially interesting when they want to have a single package support 2.4 and 2.6, and also link the result against an included binary blob. Chris - 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/