Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Mads Michelsen <chochem@gmail.com> wrote:
So I guess my questions are: 1) Is there some way around the module becoming outdated with each and every kernel update? and if not
Such is the pain of maintaining out-of-tree kernel modules. It sucks, I know.
One thing that we do with our kernel modules, to make this easier, is we set the version to "2.6.27" instead of "2.6.27.8" so that when .9 is released, we don't need to rebuild all modules (they still need to be tested, however)
That's just trying to circumvent the restrictions that the kernel imposes on out-of-tree modules. A kernel API could be changed between minor versions too, and if a module uses a newer API call with older values, it would result in an oops. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com