Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:23:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:23:46 -0500 Received: from z06.nvidia.com ([209.213.198.25]:36774 "EHLO thelma.nvidia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:23:29 -0500 From: Gareth Hughes To: Rik van Riel Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CADA518.1060705@nvidia.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 05:22:32 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... 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 On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > The fact that users have problems with different binary-only > modules not being available for the same kernel version seems > to prove that the "interface" EXPORT_SYMBOL "defines" isn't > stable. > > If it was, we'd have an nvidia driver for 2.4, not a whole > serie for each 2.4.x kernel. Actually, I think you have the driver RPMs confused with the driver itself. We supply prebuilt RPMs for all of the major RPM-based distros with every driver release. All of the source code that interacts with the Linux kernel is available in the kernel driver tarball. This has allowed many people to run the driver on the officially-unsupported 2.5 kernels, for instance. The current driver supports all kernels from 2.2.12 through to 2.4.18 (at least). -- Gareth Hughes Linux OpenGL Engineer NVIDIA Corporation gareth@nvidia.com - 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/